How to detect and block malicious Google Chrome extensions
Here's an easy way to detect and block malicious Chrome extensions!
If you use Google Chrome, you certainly have a few extensions installed that allow you to add additional features to the browser.
Basically, all of these extensions are applets or small widgets that give Chrome certain features and functionality. However, since the extension you install may control your browser, it can become very dangerous if we do not control exactly what they do.
After installing certain extensions, we may suspect or become aware that our personal data is leaking. To find out, we will have to use an extension developed to verify extensions that can access confidential data and may jeopardize our security in the network.
Hence, in this tutorial, we will show you how to detect if any of the extensions installed in Google Chrome are stealing your personal data.
Steps to detect and block malicious Google Chrome extensions
The extension in question is known as Salesforce Security, which detects and prevents dangerous chrome extensions. That's what you need to do.
1. First of all, download and install the Salesforce Security extension on the Google Chrome web browser.
2. Now, click on the same icon next to the address bar, and it will automatically show us a window with a list of all the extensions installed in Chrome.
3. From there we have to activate or deactivate those we want, even if we prefer all at once from the key that we can find in the upper right.
4. Next, for each stretch, we will also see a circle that can be of several colors. If it is green, it means that the extension is reliable.
5. Salesforce Security classifies in orange those that are potentially dangerous, in red those that carry a high risk of being dangerous.
6. From the menu itself, in addition to being able to deactivate them, by clicking on each of them we can see the permissions that we have given them, and which ones may put our data at risk.
That is; you're done now, like this, you can detect or detect extensions installed in the Google Chrome web browser to steal your data.
With Salesforce Security, it becomes easy to detect and block malicious Google Chrome extensions. Hope this article helped you! Please share it with your friends as well.