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0 pointsvtange8y ago0 comments

What sort of "antiviruses" inject stuff in browsers? Do they inject their own JS? This is the first I've heard of this and would like to know more.

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TheAceOfHearts8y ago· 1 in thread

I don't remember which vendors were causing it, but yes, many inject their own JS, causing things to break and exceptions to be thrown.

Here's a StackExchange question: "How to disable Kaspersky Antivirus javascript injection?" [0].

And on Reddit: "PSA: Kaspersky injects remote javascript into all your pages. Even secure ones." [1].

Can also attest to this, had plenty of head-scratching issues before I realized on my home computer using kaspersky why our app was breaking.

Shitty browser extensions mostly. It's like 99% of our sentry errors as well.

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