Is Kaspersky Protection 18.0 safe?

Clean risk

This extension adds Kaspersky browsing protections, including site warnings, anti-banner blocking, and payment protection.

It checks websites before you visit them and can warn about dangerous or phishing pages. It also marks search results with security indicators, blocks advertising banners, informs you about website data collection attempts, and supports Safe Money, Private Browsing, On-Screen Keyboard, and Dangerous Content Blocking features.

Kaspersky Lab Researchv5.1.93.1Chrome Web Store
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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 5.1.93.1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.

  • Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox

    nativeMessaging

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Kaspersky Protection 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.

  • Kaspersky Lab

    Kaspersky Protection sends data to Kaspersky Lab. Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.

Updated 30 September 2026mchjnmdbdlkdbfliogedbnpnanfjnolk