Is Malware Protection safe?
Malware Protection sends visited site hostnames and paths, plus search-result hostnames, to SiteAdvisor for safety checks.
The extension runs on HTTP and HTTPS pages and asks its background script to check the current site's hostname and path with SiteAdvisor before showing a block page. On Google and Bing search result pages, it collects result hostnames and checks each one with SiteAdvisor so it can add safe or unsafe icons next to results.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Malware 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.
- www.siteadvisor.com
Malware Protection sends data to www.siteadvisor.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.