Comment on We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal dataComments−ocdtrekkie7yAs of this writing, the malicious "Postman" extension is still available in the Google Chrome extension store and has been downloaded over 27,000 times.This is pretty much par for the course, unfortunately.−cwsOP7yYep. Pretty hard to police. Unlikely to be removed until it gets quite a lot of attention.−audessuscest7yFirefox does it really well though, before.−cwsOP7yI just searched for the fake Postman extension again and it appears to have been removed. Hurray!−ocdtrekkie7yIt seems like trending a story on HN is the only way to get Google to remove malware, unfortunately.
Comments
As of this writing, the malicious "Postman" extension is still available in the Google Chrome extension store and has been downloaded over 27,000 times.
This is pretty much par for the course, unfortunately.
Yep. Pretty hard to police. Unlikely to be removed until it gets quite a lot of attention.
Firefox does it really well though, before.
I just searched for the fake Postman extension again and it appears to have been removed. Hurray!
It seems like trending a story on HN is the only way to get Google to remove malware, unfortunately.