Does ESET Scan Browser Add-Ons?

[JosephKing 3]

Does ESET protect against malicious browser extensions? If no, could ESET make a tool to check add-ons?

[Marcos 5,070]

ESET scans add-ons/extensions like any other files on a disk.

[New_Style_xd 69]

This tool already exists as Marcos said.

[peteyt 393]

10 hours ago, JosephKing said:

Does ESET protect against malicious browser extensions? If no, could ESET make a tool to check add-ons?

If you have an extension that keeps reappearing disable sync in chrome before removing. I've seen where an AV removes it but because of sync it just comes back on

[JosephKing 3]

I mean, can ESET audit your extensions? I don't have something suspicious. It would be great to have a tool that could check browser add-ons.

[New_Style_xd 69]

3 hours ago, JosephKing said:

I mean, can ESET audit your extensions? I don't have something suspicious. It would be great to have a tool that could check browser add-ons.

I really miss a tool that checks the extensions for our browser.

[JosephKing 3]

Is there an article about it? I'd like to better understand it; alert, category, how its detected (in browser, on file system.) I'm interested to know how they're handled. I see MS Store packages in my ESET logs, I'm gonna scan the Chrome extension directory to get a better idea. Maybe there's a YT video demo w/ extension detections.

Edited August 20, 2022 by JosephKing