Chrome users are loading things they really want, such as a free screensaver or game, or, ironically, security software, only to find out later that a malicious program piggybacked its way into the browser settings.Ĭommenters on Ars Technica’s coverage noted that it would be nice were the reset button to roll settings back to the previous version rather than to the default.īeyond that, Upson noted that the reset will knock out any installed extensions, apps and themes. The problem’s still growing at “an alarming rate,” he wrote on Friday. Typically, browser hijacking results in some type of click-fraud scheme that profits whoever kidnapped our browsers by, for example, changing our homepages or injecting ads into the sites we browse, according to Linus Upson, Google’s vice president of engineering.
Windows users will also get a prompt offering to restore their settings back to the factory-fresh default. Now, Windows users will automatically receive a warning when software surreptitiously changes their browser settings. To make sure that everybody who needs that reset button can get at it, Google announced on Friday that it’s tweaked Chrome so as to put the warning and the reset right in front of users’ faces. This, in spite of Google having added a “ reset browser settings” button in October. 1 Google Chrome user complaint, the company says.
Browser hijacking – the stealthy takeover of our browser settings when we get tricked into installing and running malicious software – is the No.
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