Protect your browser
Drive-by downloads are pretty rare on Linux, and to be fair they’re becoming increasingly rare on Windows too. Gone, also, are the days where respectable programs bundled surreptitious ‘optional’ extras with their installers, such as browser search bars or spontaneous uncloseable popup adverts. But that’s no excuse for complacency.
Where these kinds of things do appear on Linux, it’s usually in the form of browser extensions, which are usually installed unwittingly by users. The goodly humans and machine-learn’ed bots that patrol the Chrome store and the Firefox extension page can’t catch everything, after all. More often than not, these are easily uninstalled from the Add-ons () or Extensions (/) preferences. Recent versions of can log all extension activity; just start it with:
