Google Acts Against Malicious Chrome Extensions

While many of the extensions are accidentally installed by users who were tricked into downloading it, many were installed without the user's knowledge by other dodgy applications using Chrome's auto-install feature. To address that problem, Google has removed auto-installs in the latest version of Chrome.

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