Is Admin By Request safe?
Admin By Request monitors browser downloads and forwards the file path of completed .exe files to the vendor's native host on the device.
When a browser download of a .exe file completes, the extension retrieves the full local filesystem path and forwards it to a locally installed Admin By Request native messaging host via the com.abr.startapp channel. The native host performs policy evaluation and can trigger a notification in the browser. No data leaves the local machine; all communication is between the extension and the vendor's own desktop application.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.4.1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Start, monitor and manage your downloads
downloads
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox
nativeMessaging
Store data in your browser
storage
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Admin By Request contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- com.abr.startapp (local native host)
Admin By Request sends data to com.abr.startapp (local native host). Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.