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1. #Great tab suspender malware for free#
2. #Great tab suspender malware update#
3. #Great tab suspender malware code#
4. #Great tab suspender malware windows#

I’m immensely thankful for the extension and all the potential malware it has infected on my machine. So yea, I hate to be the one to tell you but The Great Suspender is finished. Mashable, The Verge, and many other tech publications have tried getting them on record. Image: Chrome Web StoreĪs to what kind of malware Google found, it’s still unclear, the company hasn’t disclosed any details other than it “contains malware.” And they’re not replying back to requests for comments. Essentially, it made Google Chrome run faster, especially for folks who tend to keep a ton of tabs open. Users who had the extension installed in their browser received a message notifying them the extension “contains malware.” Any mention of The Great Suspender on the Chrome Web Store has been completely wiped from existence.įor those who have never heard of this extension, The Great Suspender would shut down tabs you weren’t using in Google Chrome, basically cutting down on memory and heavy resource usage. That’s right, Google removed and disabled The Great Suspender extension. So the news that Google is giving them the boot from the Chrome Web Store on top of completely disabling it from everyone’s Chrome browser is hitting me especially hard.

#Great tab suspender malware for free#

If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.Full disclosure: I’ve been using The Great Suspender extension for literally years now. If your session contains a very large number of tabs, then you might instead want to click ‘resuspend’ which will be much faster as it reloads the tabs in a suspended state.”

#Great tab suspender malware windows#

This will reload all windows and tabs in an ‘unsuspended’ state.

To reload a session, simply click the ‘reload’ link. You can click on each session to see more detail on the individual windows and tabs it contains. This will show you your most recent tab sessions. Then in the settings sidebar click on ‘Session management’. Go to the extension options page (from ‘settings’ in the popup or ‘options’ when right-clicking on the extension). “The extension comes with its own tab history management UI to help users recover from lost tabs. If you have lost tabs due to the extension being removed read the following post:

The extension’s original creator Dean Oemcke sold the extension in June 2020 to an unidentified party, since then the new maintainer uploaded two new versions on the Chrome store, 7.1.8 and 7.1.9. Microsoft blocked The Great Suspender extension since November for the presence of malicious code. “The Great Suspender has been removed from the Chrome Web Store.” Well, they could until Google nuked the extension from their store.” reads a post published by Calum McConnell on GitHub.

#Great tab suspender malware update#

The malicious maintainer remains in control, however, and can introduce an update at any time.

#Great tab suspender malware code#

After Microsoft removed it from Edge for malware, v7.1.9 was created without this code: that has been the code running since November, and it does not appear to load the compromised script. In v7.1.8 of the extension (published to the web store but NOT to GitHub), arbitrary code was executed from a remote server, which appeared to be used to commit a variety of tracking and fraud actions. “The old maintainer appears to have sold the extension to parties unknown, who have malicious intent to exploit the users of this extension in advertising fraud, tracking, and more. The malicious code could be exploited to carry out malicious activities, such as committing advertising fraud. “This extension contains malware,” read the notification published by Google.Įxperts discovered that a new maintainer of the extensions has secretly added a feature that could be exploited to remotely execute arbitrary code. The extension replaces the suspended pages with a blank page until the users decide to use it again. The extension was used to suspend tabs that aren’t in use with the intent of saving resource. The extension had more than two million installs before it was removed from the Chrome store.