Opera has recently blacklisted the Tampermonkey 4.7.54 extension offered on the Chrome Web Store claiming it to be malicious. Let us read more to know about this popular user script manager & reasons for its abandoning by Opera.Chrome Web Store is facing an uphill battle from the last few years for hosting malevolent add-ons that claim to enhance your web browser capabilities.
Opera revealed that it discovered a malware installing the version of Tampermonkey found on the Chrome web Store with extension ID dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo. The malware was spread using alternative distribution option depicting that the extension was being installed manually via the JSON or registry. If you visit Opera’s extension manager to know the reason for Tampermonkey’s removal, it reveals that the extension has been blocked by Opera as it is malicious and informs the user to either leave or remove it. On the contrary, if you downloaded the extension from Opera Store you will have no problem because it hosts the older version of the extension i.e. 4.2.5291.
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Tampermonkey, the widely used free browser extension known to manage user scripts & offer valuable features to improve user’s browsing experience has been declared malicious by the infamous Opera web Browser. So if you have installed Tampermonkey 4.7.54 extension from Chrome web Store in Opera Browser & using it, you will be alerted by the warning.
The popular user script manager extension, Tampermonkey has over 10 million users & is available for all the popular browsers including Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox & Microsoft Edge. The distinctive attributes offered by the extension include.
- · Clear Overview over the running scripts.
- · ZIP- based import & export
- · A built-in editor
- · Automatic Update checks
- · Browser & Cloud Storage based synchronization
Opera revealed that it discovered a malware installing the version of Tampermonkey found on the Chrome web Store with extension ID dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo. The malware was spread using alternative distribution option depicting that the extension was being installed manually via the JSON or registry. If you visit Opera’s extension manager to know the reason for Tampermonkey’s removal, it reveals that the extension has been blocked by Opera as it is malicious and informs the user to either leave or remove it. On the contrary, if you downloaded the extension from Opera Store you will have no problem because it hosts the older version of the extension i.e. 4.2.5291.
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