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Recently, the author of Nano Ad Blocker and Nano Defender sold his applications to software developers that he says he didn't have any reason to not trust or be suspicious of. It turned out that they were malware authors and quickly pushed out updates that contain malicious code that sends all kinds of user data back to their own server. It appears to mainly be targeting Facebook and Instagram. (Although the malware is such that the authors had control to target any website the user accessed.) https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-removes-two-chrome-ad-blockers-caught-collecting-user-data/ https://github.com/jspenguin2017/Snippets/issues/2 Google removed these long available extensions from its webstore. But because extensions installed from the store auto update and the user can't install updates manually, the malware versions of these extensions were available for quite some time and pushed out their code to all users who had them installed. (This is even the case on Chromium.) Chrome AFAIK hasn't done any kind of force disabling of these extensions. I had the malware version of Nano Defender installed (version 206), and it was still running when I came across this information by chance. Nano Ad Blocker is a fork of uBlock Origin. You can either install uBlock Origin, or enable developer mode and then do a "Load Unpacked" for the last version of Nano AdBlocker that was legit (1.0.0.153). Nano Defender started as a sort of continuation of "Anti Adblock Killer", a script that was designed to thwart websites' attempts to detect that users were using an ad blocker. Its author got burned out, another one took over, that one got burned out, then "uBlock Protector" was started as a replacement. That project got renamed to "Nano Defender" after the author forked uBlock to "Nano AdBlocker". It worked with uBlock Origin and Nano AdBlocker, and now this author has also gotten burned out, and had no idea what he was doing when he went to sell it (in terms of insuring the new developer was trustworthy). If you want to still use Nano Defender, you can use the last legit version (15.0.0.205). (There are extra setup steps for use with uBlock Origin.) Only the Chrome versions of Nano Defender and Nano AdBlocker are affected. Firefox and Edge forks are still OK. It's probably a good idea to add these lines to HOSTS: 127.0.0.1 def.dev-nano.com 127.0.0.1 dev-nano.com Some more info about the malware, and what you should do if you had it (basically, change Facebook and Instagram passwords, then log out and log back in to those sites): https://chris.partridge.tech/2020/extensions-the-next-generation-of-malware/help-for-users/ quote:In brief, a malware operator has started approaching developers of popular Chrome Web Store extensions, which have: Bula Vinaka fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Oct 25, 2020 |
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I wont
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Oct 25, 2020 00:16
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Thanks nerd
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Oct 25, 2020 00:17
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Never.
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Oct 25, 2020 00:17
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serious norman posted:Never. I will never remove Nano AdBlocker and Nano Defender for Chrome
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Oct 25, 2020 00:18
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There is a malware extension for your browser that itself is already malware?
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Oct 25, 2020 00:21
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A lot of jerks all of a sudden. I made sure to download it just so I could remove it like you told me OP
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Oct 25, 2020 00:22
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:I will never remove Nano AdBlocker and Nano Defender for Chrome 
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Oct 25, 2020 00:25
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Nano Defender is the only brand of condom that actually fits
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Oct 25, 2020 00:27
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It claims to be a defender but it hurts people?!
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Oct 25, 2020 00:28
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How dare these criminal malware authors steal my personal information! That information was meant to be sent directly to Google. 
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Oct 25, 2020 00:32
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This guy all he wanted to do was come in here and help you keep all of your protected personal informations to yourselves. I'm of half a mind that the world sees it and sees you for the sick and twisted people you are
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Oct 25, 2020 00:34
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poo poo, hey turkish dudes, I definitely didn't watch that weird japanese basilisk man porn, I just left it open in a tab
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Oct 25, 2020 00:35
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thank you OP I have now installed the nano blocker
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Oct 25, 2020 00:39
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Is there any danger in leaving the filter lists you had to subscribe to to make Nano Defender work properly?
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Oct 25, 2020 00:42
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Malware owns. I love malware
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Oct 25, 2020 00:46
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Kerning Chameleon posted:Is there any danger in leaving the filter lists you had to subscribe to to make Nano Defender work properly? I don't think so, but personally I'd either delete them, or install Nano Defender 15.0.0.205 as an unpacked extension in developer mode if I want to keep the filter lists.
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Oct 25, 2020 00:50
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Frank Frank posted:Malware owns. I love malware Things sure would be boring without it! 
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Oct 25, 2020 00:51
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bump i kinda hate it when I use an app for a long time without checking up on it and it turns out its mega evil now
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Oct 25, 2020 01:06
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English please
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Oct 25, 2020 01:12
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i got the message about it being malware, so i looked into it. the terrible violation this extension achieves seems to exclusively be hijacking instagram accounts to hit like on a bunch of stuff. there's no reason to keep it around, but that's the most trivial goddamn thing it could possibly do.
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Oct 25, 2020 01:24
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i got the message about it being malware, so i looked into it. the terrible violation this extension achieves seems to exclusively be hijacking instagram accounts to hit like on a bunch of stuff. there's no reason to keep it around, but that's the most trivial goddamn thing it could possibly do. Is that why my work accounts suddenly got a trillion likes from randos.
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Oct 25, 2020 01:26
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I've read from some sources that say Nano Defender is probably not really doing much of anything anymore. People have it installed and think that it's stopping "turn off your ad blocker to continue" messages, but in reality it's probably uBlock Origin that is doing that on its own, as the developers say they have been improving its ability to do this for quite some time now.
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Oct 25, 2020 01:46
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If you don't browse the internet with lynx I don't know what you're doing with your life.
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Oct 25, 2020 02:11
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bossy lady posted:don't browse the internet this is the only good advice
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Oct 25, 2020 02:15
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That one web tv guy is feelin pretty smug right about now
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Oct 25, 2020 02:44
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I used to "download" "mall warez," I'd go to Hot Topic and Spencer's Gifts and EB Games and Babbage's and steal poo poo to sell later.
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Oct 25, 2020 02:57
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I've always worried uBlock Origin would get turned into malware given the level of access it needs, so this doesn't surprise me that a fork of it would eventually have this happen. I don't use Nano Defender, but thanks for the heads up.
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Oct 25, 2020 03:19
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This is why the Safari content blocker extension system is better than using regular browser extensions: the content blocker extension never sees the content of the web pages, whereas regular browser extensions see all of it and there’s nothing preventing them from stealing your bank password etc
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Oct 25, 2020 03:44
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It was only about a fortnight ago that I switched to nano from ublock while setting up my new laptop, so genuinely thanks for the heads up OP.
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Oct 25, 2020 14:17
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The only malware i see are your posts OP but thanks for the heads up
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Oct 25, 2020 14:27
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my god we're all just nano bots
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Oct 25, 2020 14:29
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this seems like the sort of thing someone in advertising would do to get people to see more ads i want to know what ops angle is
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Oct 25, 2020 14:37
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There's nothing nano about my computer binch it's all macro even the viruses
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Oct 25, 2020 16:21
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gary oldmans diary posted:this seems like the sort of thing someone in advertising would do to get people to see more ads advertising 2.0: they just jack in and steal ur money
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Oct 28, 2020 04:18
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Firefox wins again 
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Oct 28, 2020 04:28
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what if instead of making all these programs to suss out malware there was a program that just continuously installed bonware on your computer to balance it out?
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Oct 28, 2020 04:57
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show yourself coward i will never uninstall
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Oct 28, 2020 04:58
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if someone steals my identity they inherit all my debt right its like faking your own death without all the hassle
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EorayMel posted:Firefox wins again
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