How often have you been listening to such words Spyware, Adware, Malware .Well they are nothing but evil side of programming and software development. People put faith in a developer and download their apps but some don’t seem to understand the trust required to give their personal information to some unknown and they try to sell it for their own benefit. Well same can happen to extension too. So Extension Defender is here to defend you from sending personal data to someone else without your consent.
How does it work?
They scan each and every extension installed in Firefox and try to find a code which is trying to establish a link to transfer personal info of their client. They tried to track down whips.com extension by seeing this line in snippet Js
"user_guid": wips.getPref('client_id')";
as a threat to access to personal and hence was declared it as unhealthy for users.
What else does it do?
Actively protects you and warns you before installing detected malicious extensions. New signatures are being added daily, currently detects over 80 adware, spyware or malware extensions, both in and out of web store. The updates to signature are automatic. There is a Notification badge on extension icon which lets you know how many extensions installed that are malicious. It tries to scan the page with advanced features and this add-on offers complete transparency to its users.
Who developed it?
It is hard to believe but the developer to this extension is unknown but one good thing is that he has a website which keeps a database of the blocked extension and this is more than sufficient to let us have faith in developer