is en.savefrom.net safe?

You are wise to be 'a little paranoid' ... but not totally. I think that hunting problems before they show themselves is not really practical. Your Mac will not get a virus ... but it may encounter malware and almost all of this can quite easily be removed.

I think you should just relax, browse with care and enjoy your Mac. We are always here to help if you meet up with malware.

jasovik wrote:

1. I went to the Savefromnet site and they want me to download an extension for Chrome called Chameleon

http://en.savefrom.net/savefrom-helper-for-google-chrome.php

Anybody have any experience with this? Is it safe?

First, let me ask you this: what is it about that extension that you want? What do you think it will do for you? I can't figure out what it's supposed to be for just by looking at the website or at the Chrome store page for that extension, and if you don't know 100% what it's for and why you should install it, then you shouldn't install it at all.

Further, to get a little more specific, SaveFrom.net is a known distributor of adware and not to be trusted. So when they're promoting an extension with no discernible purpose, you should be more than a little suspicious... you should avoid it like the plague.

That site has an ad that leads to adware:

If you click on that, fall for the scam and install the software that gets downloaded, you'll have adware on your system. This is highly unethical, so I would avoid that site if I were you. If they would link to an adware scam, they can't be trusted.

Please do not trust SaveFrom and their installs. I was not paranoid enough and found they loaded Spyware/Adware into my Mozilla Browser. I have since informed Mozilla about this breach of trust from SaveFrom.net regarding privacy. Never trust any add-on until you do more research. Macs are becoming targets on an ever increasing basis. We now have ALL Macs protected with Virus/Spyware/Adware/Malware protection.

lllaass wrote:

since it is available from the Google Chrome App store provides some assurance it is not malicious

The Chrome store is full of adware Chrome extensions. I've found and reported plenty personally. Many actually have good reviews, thanks to extensive "astroturfing" (ie, posting of fake good reviews using fake or stolen profiles).

The presence of an extension in the Chrome store is not an indication of legitimacy.

I am looking at the extension code, but I don't see any file or Javascript function with any name like "fsStat".

I guess I am missing something - can you clarify where this is? (I only tried to grep for it.) This is "helper_6.40.safariextension".

I've been using this add-on for years in both Safari and Chrome without difficulty. (However, I once heard that there were adulterated malware versions floating around on the net.) But I wouldn't put it past them to spy. I just now installed MalwareBytes to look at this, and it flagged the Safari extension as malware/adware (although that doesn't mean anything except that it's in their database ).

I tried savefrom.net to download Youtube HD videos, but there's no audio on the downloaded video. And this site offers a helper to download YouTube videos, but to make sure this helper can work well, it requires a browser extension, named Tampermonkey. I'm afraid that it's not safe, so I take a savefrom.net similar to download online videos: It seems that this program can do a better job than savefrom.net. At least, I don't need to install some unknown plugin and there's audio on the downloaded HD videos. I'm satisfied with that.

NOT SAFE! look on fsStat module in script, from line 33972 to line 34163. its spy module, sending statistics about all visited pages to two addresses on amazon vps. dont trust russian extensions

I have installed the plugin from savefrom.net and i used it for about 2 months, it didn't did anything to my computer. I've downloaded Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and saw that the plugin has a adware/malware. So far I haven't seen it does anything to my computer. But don't install it, it's very dangerous.

In response to orig post and after review of responses I ask the question as follows:

1. I went to the Savefromnet site and they want me to download an extension for Chrome called Chameleon

http://en.savefrom.net/savefrom-helper-for-google-chrome.php

Anybody have any experience with this? Is it safe?

In my experience, I can download YouTube video form savefrom.net safely. But I leave from it because it cannot download HD videos for free. The most controversial question is that "is Savefromnet Helper safe?" To be honest, I don't "encourage" you to install it on your computer. There are lots of complaints about the activity of Savefrom.net virus.
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I tried it today on my iPad 5th generation using Documents 6 by Readle to download a YouTube video. I figured since it was on my iPad it was safe. I didn't have any problems, and found it to be a convenient way to download YouTube videos and save them offline. I'd be hesitant about using it on my Mac though, simply because I'm not that familiar with it.

Googling did not show anything malicious or bad with it.

Googling shows no problems/indications that it is malicious. Also, since it is available from the Google Chrome App store provides some assurance it is not malicious