Questions About The ESET Browser Extension

[Microbe 6]

Hi ESET Team, 

 

I just want to ask the below question of our client :

 

Does the Browser Privacy & Security extension scan browser add-ons/extensions?
 

My Response : 

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

 

Note : if the extension is synchronized with the cloud account of the client  and keeps reappearing in the browser then the client would have to disable the sync before removing

 

I used the above response, since i saw it from ESET Forum,

 

Now our client have a clarification:

 

 

Client question "Good morning,

 

Thank you for this I have found the ‘files’ that correlate with the extensions in Firefox (My main browser) at AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox. I wanted to enquire about what criteria determines whether these are a threat or not and if you could provide a few examples of extensions that have been detected and removed by ESET."

 

 

Can you help us what would be the best response from his question

 

 

 

Cheers

 

 

 

[Marcos 5,166]

Browser extensions are evaluated like any other files by detection analysts and it's up to them to decide if a file/extension is subject to detection or not. It doesn't work the way that there is a complete list of detection criteria and, if a file doesn't meet any criteria but is in fact highly suspicious or malicious, yet it would not be detected just because the specific criterion is not on the list.

[Microbe 6]

Hi ESET Team,

 

Can you send me the part where we can see the criteria part? so we can share it to our client 

 

 

Cheers, 

Gil

[Marcos 5,166]

There is no such list available.

[Microbe 6]

Thank you Marcos, thank you for your response, i will share it to our client 

 

Cheers,

Gil