Is USU Smart Alert Extension safe?
USU Smart Alert Extension sends the URL, page title, and browser identity to a native messaging host on every tab visit.
On each tab activation and page load, the extension collects the current tab's URL, page title, and browser name and version, then forwards this data to the locally installed native application com.usu.smartalerthost via Chrome's native messaging API. The native host receives a continuous stream of browsing activity across all domains with no domain filter applied. This is the extension's core function as an enterprise IT monitoring component.
Who publishes itUSU GmbH - no other listings under this identity
USU GmbH - no other listings under this identity
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.2. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox
nativeMessaging
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed USU Smart Alert Extension 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.usu.smartalerthost (local native messaging host)
USU Smart Alert Extension sends data to com.usu.smartalerthost (local native messaging host). Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.