Rovio’s spin-off van Angry Birds, genaamd Bad Piggies zorgt voor problemen bij Google Chrome gebruikers. Of in elk geval de neppe variant van Bad Piggies die de ronde doet.
Al 80.000 gebruikers hebben adware (niet te verwarren met spyware) op hun computers gekregen dankzij deze neppe Bad Piggies game. Het beveiligingsbedrijf Barracuda Networks waarschuwt mensen die Bad Piggies voor Google Chrome hebben gedownload dat zij wel eens één van de 80.000 gedupeerden kunnen zijn. De game verschijnt in het scherm wanneer men zoekt via Chrome Store op ‘Bad Piggies’. Eenmaal gedownload blijken het neppe varianten van de game te zijn. Barracuda waarschuwt:

“First, this Angry Birds Bad Piggies game is not authentic: it is a pigs-shoot-birds game. Second, and much worse, once the game installs a plug-in that displays additional advertisements in some popular websites. Yahoo.com for example.”
“As of Oct. 2, 2012, there are about 82,593 Chrome users who installed these ads-injected plugins, and the total number is still climbing fast day by day, e.g., about 13K new installations from October 1 to October 2.”
“A suggestion to Chrome users; whenever trying to install a plugin inside the Chrome web store, consider the requested permissions with a critical eye toward the intent of the plugin.”
“If the plugin requests any permission that does not seem reasonable, do not install it. If you have already installed, uninstall them immediately and change your passwords on other websites if possible.”

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