The clean method to disable extensions from redirecting your Chrome tabs is to start Chrome with disabled extensions. The extension keep users out of Chrome’s extensions list by redirecting chrome://extensions/ to chrome://apps/?r=extensions, where the offending extension is not listed, as only the installed apps will be shown.īlocking JavaScript in Chrome doesn’t help in this case, as that setting only applies to sites and not to this (internal) page. You can find the removal guide for Tiempo en colombia en vivo on our forums.
The extension is detected by Malwarebytes as Rogue.ForcedExtension. For Chromeįirst, we’re going to look at the Chrome extension called Tiempo en colombia en vivo, which is pushed by the method we previously described as a forced Chrome extension. However, if you’re not a Premium customer, there are still some, admittedly involved, ways to get around these murky and persistent browser hijackers by recognizing, finding, and removing the extensions. ( Malwarebytes Premium and Business users are already protected from these threats by our website protection module.) In Firefox, this problem is relatively easy to circumvent, but for Chrome it takes a lot of digging-so much so that we suggest the fastest way to resolve the problem is to report it to Chrome or your favorite security solution so they (we) can take care of it.
The extensions, which have been found in both Chrome and Firefox browsers, block users from removing them by either by closing out pages with extensions/add-ons info, or sending users to a different page, such as an apps overview page, where extensions aren’t listed. The extensions redirect users away from pages where they can disable or delete them in order to drive clicks up on YouTube videos or hijack searchers. What you don’t see won’t hurt you, must have been the reasoning of the threat actors who created the latest batch of extensions that make these browser hijackers even more difficult to remove.