Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

Re:Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Sto... by kevin_thibedeau on Monday August 31, 2026 @08:59PM (#49516692)

Viruses were common on FTP sites and BBSs. They weren't all benign. DOS in particular had zero protections against damaging code. Bot armies hadn't been developed yet so malicious destruction was just as likely an outcome.

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Re:Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Sto... by transcriptase on Monday August 31, 2026 @10:39PM (#49517372)

Yes, and what did the damaging code and viruses actually do in that era?

Software, OSs, and the internet at large were comically unsafe from a safety perspective. There was also a very high barrier of entry in terms of the skills required to take advantage of that, and very little incentive to do so compared to today or even 20 years ago.

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Re:Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Sto... by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @12:16AM (#49517894)

If you got lucky, they just self-replicated onto floppies. Not so lucky, they would corrupt your hard drive.

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