![]() Rather, it seems that the data that is being delete relates to cookies stored for websites or something of that nature.įirst of all, for more explanation about why this issue is occurring, read Fatdcuk's post below. What is Malwarebytes deleting? From looking at the results of my scan, the issue is not with extensions or the remains of a malicious extension I had installed. We are at the moment working towards a fix to the sync service issue and apologise for any alarm or inconvenience caused.Īs as interim work around to stop the detection(s) then staying signed out of sync service will stop bad data being rewritten or alternatively you can temporarily set exclusions in malwarebytes for the file(s) where the detection(s) are being made.įor example but your pathway for the files will be listed in a Malwarebytes scan log where the detections are made.Ĭ:\Users\%YOURUSERACCOUNT%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Secure PreferencesĬ:\Users\%YOURUSERACCOUNT%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Web CacheĬhrome is not distributing malware/PUP's intentionally but its Sync service when used will save many Chrome settings/extensions that can potentially include any bad ones if you may have onboard at the time of setting up the sync service or any installed along the way with sync service active. The current issues with repeat detections are being caused by Chrome sync service restoring bad data that we are attempting to remove. It is a great feature to be able to transfer your profile across multiple devices but it cant differentiate between good or bad stuff when syncing data. ![]() These are not f/p detections but we introduced new chrome fixing 2 days ago.Ĭhrome is not distributing malware/PUP's intentionally but its Sync service when used will save many Chrome settings/extensions/search engines that can potentially include any bad ones if you may have onboard at the time of setting up the sync service or any installed along the way with sync service active. ![]() Well assuming that it is a false positive, and I believe it is, this is on Malwarebytes' end unless Google is distributing malware with Chrome. ![]()
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