<![CDATA[Blocksi an opera addon installed malicious software on my computer]]>Earlier today I was setting up an older computer for my son. Just a Windows 7 box with a clean install. After finishing fiddling with the drivers I decided to install a web filter since he's still pretty young. I looked around the net for a good free one when I noticed there was an opera addon for a web filter called Blocksi. I scanned the reviews, some people were having some minor issues but on the whole it seemed to work. So I installed it.

Immediately after installing it and doing the configuration I tested it out by going to a website that should be blocked. It blocked it. But before I could celebrate, I noticed the blocked message page was odd. There were weird banners and ads all over it. Suddenly install programs began to run and began installing things so fast I couldn't close them before they were done. I closed the browser but the damage was done.

Windows kept popping up and ads even after the browser was closed. More installation windows began installing yet more malicious programs. I realized it would be a pain to clean all that out and opted to just do a clean install all over again. This time installing the security software first.

I want to post here because I'm having trouble logging into the addons page to make a review. This addon needs to be removed immediately. Here's a link for those curious, but don't install it.

https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/blocksi-web-filtering-and-parental-control/?display=en

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/16722/blocksi-an-opera-addon-installed-malicious-software-on-my-computerRSS for NodeMon, 15 Jun 2026 14:57:35 GMTWed, 24 Aug 2016 06:11:18 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Blocksi an opera addon installed malicious software on my computer on Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:08:05 GMT]]>Thanks for reporting it. We'll investigate asap.

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