Is Total WebShield: Chrome Antivirus Protection safe?
Total WebShield sends visited pages and search-result URLs to Protected.net for reputation checks.
When WebShield is enabled and a user account is present, it checks top-level HTTP(S) navigations by posting the visited URL to api.webshield.protected.net/e3/gsb/url. On supported search pages, it also collects result-link destination URLs and sends them in bulk to api.webshield.protected.net/e4/gsb/url so it can mark results as safe or unsafe.
Who publishes itTotal Security Limited - 6 other listings from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
Total Security Limited - 6 other listings from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
4 other listings published from this account, 932k+ users between them. 1 of them carries a finding.
Same operator - 2 listings
Published under a different store account, but sharing the registered address, contact or declared legal entity this one gave the store.
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 3.3.0. 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
<all_urls>
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Change per-site browser settings such as cookies, JavaScript and camera access
contentSettings
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Change your browser's privacy and security settings
privacy
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Block and redirect the requests your browser makes
declarativeNetRequest
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Total WebShield: Chrome Antivirus 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.
- api.webshield.protected.net
Total WebShield: Chrome Antivirus Protection sends data to api.webshield.protected.net. 2 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.