What is the best antivirus for Google Chrome?

The first thing that comes to different people's minds is to be able to take some steps to  increase the security of their information and system  against the intrusion of viruses, malware, etc., some of which is to use a strong and appropriate antivirus that these can be effective in securing systems to a large extent.

These days, users do all their daily chores online, for example, making their purchases online by entering their credit card number, now imagine that such important information of users is being made available to people as a result of entering viruses and causes a lot of damage to users, now what do you think will happen? Certainly, irreparable damage will be done to the user, which is why the necessary measures must be taken before these happenings. Chrome users can resist all of these with the help of some programs, which we'll cover in this article.

What is Google Chrome?

On September 2, 2008, Google Chrome was released by Google, and Chrome is licensed as proprietary free software, and now the rendering engine of this browser is Blink. Today, Google Chrome has a huge share of the worldwide browser market, and many users tend to use it.

While using Google Chrome, malicious viruses may enter your system. Eventually, your information may be compromised, so you can get help from Google Chrome extensions, which you can download in web chrome stores, and finally, you can add them to your browser which can help you  increase your security  while using Google Chrome, in this article, we are going to mention the best extensions in Chrome that help you ensure the safety and security of users' information while they are online.

The best extensions in Chrome for online security:                                                 

- AdBlock Plus:

AdBlock Plus  is an open-source browser extension that, as its name implies, deals with displaying ads that you may see while visiting many websites, which are very annoying at the same time. By downloading this plugin, you will be able to remove the ads which cause you to have problems while doing your tasks. This plugin has provided many features for its users. Through the options available in this plugin, we can mention the opportunity of creating a list of sites in which you want to block their ads.

Some ads may be shown to you to import viruses and malware. If you click on them, you may encounter severe problems with your entire system, so using this plugin can provide  a lot of security for your system and information  to prevent profiteers from infiltrating your system.

- Disconnect Facebook:

Social networks are trying to track all your activities and based on the activities you have outside their social network and will send you targeted ads,  Facebook  social network also has this feature and tracks the activity of its users all the time so that it tries to get information about the users' needs, to send targeted ads to them according to their needs.

Facebook can do all of this through third-party cookies, and it can also track its users even when they are not on Facebook. This activity is called off-Facebook, so you can use the Disconnect Facebook plugin to block it completely and prevent it from compromising the security of your system. If you use this plugin, Facebook will no longer be able to track you, and as a result, you can greatly protect your privacy.

- Avast Online Security:

There are many ways to disrupt your system by various viruses, one of which is to enter sites that are not secure and valid, and eventually, malware infects the system. If an extension can detect insecure sites for you, you would be very careful and not try to enter them. As a result, your system won't be infected by  malware.

The plugin that provides this feature for users is Avast Online Security because it tags sites as safe or unsafe, so the users can decide whether they should enter a website or not by viewing their tags. In addition to that, the users can also view the green, gray or red symbols, after which they can decide to choose a site to meet their needs. In addition to this feature, this plugin can also be effective in blocking ads because they are so annoying, and they will also disrupt the process of your activity on the site.

- Privacy Badger:

Another plugin that blocks web tracking is the Privacy Badger plugin. First, it finds out the sites trying to track you and then blocks them and prevents your security from being compromised.

-Click & Clean:

This plugin allows you to close all your browsing data when you want to leave Chrome. Another feature of this plugin that causes an increase in the security of users' information while using Chrome is scanning for viruses and  malware.

- Disconnect:

Disconnect is another plugin that can help you prevent various websites from tracking you. As we have mentioned earlier, some websites can track you while you are visiting a site other than theirs, which can do a lot of damage to your  system security.

This plugin can show us the name of any particular web tracker, and ultimately you can decide whether you want the site to track you or not. This plugin also has a paid source to provide more features for users.

- HTTPS Everywhere:

You know that sites with HTTP in their address instead of  HTTPS, are not secure, and they have not received SSL certification. Most people are constantly trying to use sites that have enabled HTTPS to meet their needs.

Although site owners are aware of this, there are still sites that are not certified and do not have high security. HTTPS Everywhere switches HTTP to HTTPS automatically to make your  website secure and protect your information  as well as possible.

In general, if you do not take security seriously, much damage will be done to your system. A variety of malicious attacks will be done on your site. We can mention injection attacks, which can be identified using the plugins we mentioned in this article. Finally, users can investigate what happened after their system is infected, and they can finally do their best to regain the lost security.

In addition to the plugins we mentioned, other ones aim to help users  increase the security of their system  as much as possible to protect their data in the best possible way. In this article, we tried to name some of the best available and their advantages to make a choice easier for you.

Last word:

As you know, Google Chrome has a lot of users these days who refer to it to meet their basic needs and doing researches, which is why the number of its users is increasing day by day as well as the worries about  system security, because in the meantime, there are people who are trying to harm users and steal their information, so it is necessary to take some steps in order to  increase your security while using Google Chrome, and get acquainted with the tools that can help you in this field and know how to use them, to get the best possible results, that's why in this article we have listed the best extensions that are available in order to increase your security in Google Chrome, so that you can use them to protect your information from being stolen by hackers due to the fact that they will abuse them to achieve their desired goals, another point that should be taken into consideration is that if you do not care about your system security and do not get help from the available tools like extensions, you will let hackers infiltrate your system which can endanger your whole system.