Is McAfee SafeKey safe?
McAfee SafeKey fetches server-controlled JavaScript from its vendor and executes it in every page's DOM.
The extension retrieves account data and per-domain configuration from safekey.mcafee.com on login, including custom_js fields for individual sites. When a page loads, the content script injects that server-sourced code as a script element into the page's document body, running it in the page's origin context across all HTTP and HTTPS frames. Additionally, when enterprise login-logging is enabled by the server response, the extension transmits the visited site URL, site name, and decrypted username to safekey.mcafee.com after each autofill.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.2.3. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
http://*/*
Read and change your data on every secure site you visit
https://*/*
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Detect when you step away from your computer
idle
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Watch, block and rewrite every request your browser makes
webRequestBlocking
Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox
nativeMessaging
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed McAfee SafeKey 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.
- safekey.mcafee.com
McAfee SafeKey sends data to safekey.mcafee.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.