InfoWorld.com reports that there’s a new threat growing out of the easy extensibility of Google Chrome with add-ons. It has always been possible for someone to create a malicious or adware plugin and attempt to place it on the Chrome Web Store. Google worked hard to assure that such apps didn’t see the light of day or at the least were removed immediately.

But there’s a back door Google apparently hadn’t considered: What if a good app goes bad? That’s what happened to two such add-ons, Add to Feedly and Tweet This Page.

Once considered useful extensions downloaded by many, now they have become Google outcasts, removed from the Google store.

The problem was the the owners of these two plug-ins sold their code to other companies, and those new owners took advantage of the trust of the users to persuade them to download new versions with hidden, unexpected and undesirable payloads.

If you have upgraded one of these plug-ins, it’s probably wise to remove it.. If you haven’t upgraded, you shouldn’t be bothered because they no longer tempt you when you check for updates.

You can read the original story here: http://www.infoworld.com/t/web-browsers/chrome-spammers-duped-users-developers-and-google-too-234652.

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