After displaying fake uBlock Origin as a top search result in Chrome Store for half a year, Google has finally removed the malicious app.

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After @SwiftOnSecurity [started Tweeting about it](https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/723562435601264640?lang=en) to his hundred thousand follower base on daily basis.

[Reported at least 4 months ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/3ui5kx/chrome_store_has_a_fakemalicious_version_of/).

[Another report 6 months ago?](https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/3nawx1/help_i_accidentally_installed_a_scam_version_of/)

Thank you for finally removing the malware.

4 thoughts on “After displaying fake uBlock Origin as a top search result in Chrome Store for half a year, Google has finally removed the malicious app.”

  2. How do you tell if you have the legit one? I recently switched to Chrome to try out over Firefox a few days ago and installed “uBlock Origin offered by gorhill.” It had 6,000+ reviews and 3.5m+ downloads over the other “uBlock” so I figured it was the real one.

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  4. If only Google had people who were good with writing search algorithms and could ensure that the most popular item in the chrome store with a given name were the top result.

    Their current algorithm prioritizes the “applications” category above the “extensions” category. Which is why if you search for [ublock origin](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/ublock%20origin?hl=en) in the chrome store, you now get some other **not** ublock-origin application showing up above the extension.

    Really, this should be more embarassing for Google than the 4 months it took them to remove the malicious one would suggest it is.

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