We got a call from a customer who couldn’t get to a website she uses everyday. The issue was in Chrome. I went to the extensions to see if anything strange was installed. I saw “Search Encrypt“.
A quick search lead me to an article at Malwarebytes.
https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/226686-removal-instructions-for-search-encrypt/
This article was on removing Search Encrypt and a lot of places label it as Malware. We would too.
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