I received this in email today. It's legitimate but it reminded of something we see often in Remote Technical Support. Customers log in and when we look at extensions in Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome and other browsers, we find package tracking add-ons. Although it sounds like a good idea - being able to track a …
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Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo
In a January 24, 2019 post entitled, Extensions: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, (Click on Clint Eastwood to read the post!) we talked about browser extensions. We described what they are and that there are good, i.e., safe, useful extensions and there are ones that are bad and maybe even ugly. In this post, …
Google Chrome Warning
In a previous post, I talked about the Google Chrome password checker. Google Chrome also has an extension called "Password Checkup." This extension will check passwords when you go to log into a site. If the password has been exposed in a data breach, a warning will appear in the upper right-hand corner of Chrome …