EU cookie law and fake Chrome extensions When a website is serving up malware to unsuspecting visitors, its often not too hard to find the culprit. In some cases however, it takes a bit more digging. When visiting a (not named on request) specific website, youre presented with the following message: Your browser contains MALWARE. You have to install Chrome Malware Removal tool After some digging on the site, nothing was suspicious at first sight. However... It did have a EU cookie law pop-up/consent: The script behind it is as follows: ... Which contains: Both scripts contain the warning message and a redirect to the Google Chrome store: lang = en; var msg = Your browser contains MALWARE. You have to install Chrome Malware Removal tool.; if (lang == es) msg = "Su navegador contiene malware. Usted tiene que instalar la herramienta de eliminaci�n de malware Chrome."; if (lang == it) msg = "Il tuo browser contiene malware. � necessario installare strumento di rimozione m...