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For years, Google and Mozilla have battled to maintain abusive or outright malicious browser extensions from infiltrating their official repositories. Now, Microsoft is taking on the battle.

Over the previous a number of days, individuals in web site boards have complained of the Google searches being redirected to oksearch[.]com once they use Edge. Typically, the searches use cdn77[.]org for connectivity.

After discovering the redirections weren’t an remoted incident, members on this Reddit dialogue winnowed the listing of suspects down to 5. All of them are knockoffs of professional add-ons. That signifies that whereas the extensions bear the names of professional builders, they’re, in reality, imposters with no relation.