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Does anyone know where one could find a list of offending plugins? I tried, but came up empty handed.


I've been in contact with someone from Google Security and this was their answer:

"I spoke to the team that maintains that list and they don't have plans to make it public, if you would be willing to share some ideas on how to better protect people from this unwanted software I would be happy to pass it on but due to the nature of the work (trying to stay one step ahead of bad guys) we probably won't be able to share anything back."

I'm the author of this anti-adware addon called "Extension Defender" and it would greatly help my users if I could use their list, because while they extensions were removed from the Webstore, does that mean it was forcibly removed from their PC? Probably not.

Plug: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/extension-defender...


I had the same problem. I'd also like to know whether an extension purged from the store will be automatically removed from Chrome if it is installed or would have to be manually removed.


I'd like this as well.




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