OK. Conclusions, use secure extensions and do not use those that overlap.
I think this will be some good training steps for midnight and others too. Take one extension at a time, and see what it does and try to learn to work it right.
Just like I explained about DrWeb Anti-Virus Link Checker. Right click the icon in the browser toolbar and you see Options go there and read: chrome-extension://aleggpabliehgbeagmfhnodcijcmbonb/content/options.html what that extension was made to do.
On what drops down from the icon when you click it you see: Internet Tracker blocked 0 Social Network Plug-ins blocked 0
Flash plug-ins Allowed by default - Allow for this website - Block for this website - (I have allowed by default for our forum site)
Ads blocked by default - Manual blocking mode Select the blocks that you do not want to see on this page and then press Save
In this way you could choose to block the Google ad on forum.avast.com, but I haven't done so. Seen it so many times now, it does not bother me any longer.
The DrWeb search results you get on a google search results page: Dr.Web Link Checker allows checking links on the Internet through the Doctor Web servers without anti-virus installation on your local computer. OK we can have it next to avast! as an additional. No wrong interactions/conflicts seen.
Here is what you get when you click a link for scanning with DrWeb;s url link checker:
Example pre-scan results after you see a clickable link to be checked with DrWeb:
Checking: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200171906-Error-522
Engine version: 7.0.7.12100
Total virus-finding records: 4977660
File size: 9606 bytes
File MD5: 155f2c93b4e8a5e358e6fc17b781e2c7
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200171906-Error-522 - archive JS-HTML
>https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200171906-Error-522/JSTAG_1[32e][26a] - Ok
>https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200171906-Error-522/JSTAG_2[790][11d] - Ok
>https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200171906-Error-522/JSTAG_3[22ed][1ba] - Ok
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200171906-Error-522 - Ok
this site is safe/secure to click as far as DrWeb url cheker knows.
Now we know what the extension does. How to use it on websites and how to check on a particular clickable link.
Get the habit for working it, do some practice until it all becomes routine whenever you need it.
And remember whenever you see other colors than green, first come here and report at virus and worms.
Remember always this DrWeb extension is an additional, sometimes you need further checking because of the limits on the depth of the scan
and external link checks, but as a first means of pre-cheking links it is a good pre-scanner.
For a more thorough scan is to manually scan here:
http://scanurl.net/?u= (funny DrWeb is not there, but is on VirusTotal scan.
Now for those that do like to check without installing the extension, you can help yourself to the pre-scan here:
http://online.us.drweb.com/?url=1Oh and having Bitdefender's TrafficLight next to DrWeb's gives you an additional detection layer, because of the awful wide detection scope of Bitdefender's.
It is renowned for this.
That is all for now.
polonus