The co-founder of Ad-blocker Ad Guard as of late has
reviewed various ad blockers on the Google Chrome Web Store. The purpose behind
being that the Ad-Blocker that the users' may have installed in their browsers
may in reality turn out to be a malware.
Posing like the world's most well-known
advertisement blocking software, a false extension made it onto the Chrome Web
Store and deceived countless of victims into installing what ended up being an
exceptionally irritating bit of adware.
A large portion of these extensions are styled to
look genuine yet they are really carrying malware in their code, says Andrey
Meshkov, the co-founder of the advertisement blocker software Ad Guard, who got
inquisitive about the expanding number of knock-off ad-blocking extensions
accessible for Google's prominent browser Chrome quite recently.
"Basically
I downloaded it and checked what requests the extension was making and some very
strange requests caught my attention."
-Said Meshkov in
a recent interview with Kaleigh Rogers, who writes for Motherboard.
He additionally found that the AdRemover extension
for Chrome had a script loaded from the remote command server, giving the
extension engineer the ability to change its functionality without restoring
the current code.
In spite of the fact that Meshkov didn't forthwith
notice what the extension was really gathering the information for, he said
that having a connection to a remote server is perilous on the grounds that it
could change the way your browser behaves in many ways, later including that
the extension could modify the appearance of the website pages that a user
visits.
What's more is that, this by itself is against
Google's policy, and after Meshkov expounded on a couple of cases on Ad Guard’s
blog, a large number of which had millions of downloads, Chrome removed the
extensions from the store.