Is MetaDefender Endpoint Download Protection safe?
MetaDefender Endpoint Download Protection sends completed download URLs to an OPSWAT native host.
When a browser download finishes, the background service worker looks up the download item and forwards its metadata to the local native messaging host com.opswat.gears.client.mafbridge. The recorded claim identifies the download URL as included in that payload.
Who publishes itOPSWAT - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding
OPSWAT - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
1 other listing published from this account, 6k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
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 1.0.0. 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
Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox
nativeMessaging
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed MetaDefender Endpoint Download 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.
- com.opswat.gears.client.mafbridge
MetaDefender Endpoint Download Protection sends data to com.opswat.gears.client.mafbridge. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.