Chrome Web StoreNo malware found
In code review
Our reviewer read this extension’s code and found no malicious behaviour. An automated risk flag was reviewed and overturned.
What our analysis found
IE Tab, used by 4,000,000 people, showed no malicious code in Extension Auditor's review. Its permissions mean it can read and change data on all websites and can observe network requests. It comes from a trusted publisher and was last updated in July 2026.
IE Tab is a widely-used (4M users) extension that requires broad permissions (webRequest, nativeMessaging, cookies, etc.) to emulate Internet Explorer within Chrome. All permissions and network communications serve the stated purpose: redirecting auto URLs to IE Tab, syncing cookies, communicating with the native helper, and validating licenses via the publisher's own domain (). The ML risk score (0.00) is low; the flagged patterns (e.g., innerHTML, appendChild, base64) are typical of the bundled Myrtille RDP client and normal DOM operations, not obfuscation. There is no evidence of data exfiltration to third parties, unauthorized tracking, remote code injection, or credential theft. The published manifest matches the bundled manifest. The CWS-disclosed data collection as 'none' is inconsistent with the license ping, but that ping goes to the publisher's own privacy-policy domain for license verification, which is a legitimate business purpose and would be covered by the external privacy policy. The extension is a legitimate productivity tool, not malware.
IE Tab Chrome extension security report
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Supported Languages
Extension Info & Metadata
Publisher Contextual Analysis
- Author
- Blackfish Software, LLC
- Privacy
- Privacy Policy
- Help
- Help Center
- MX records exist
- Yes
- Domain exists
- Yes
- Is disposable
- No
- Is role-based
- Yes
- Mailbox exists
- Yes
- Website
- Visit
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Install growth
Each row lists a threat category the scanner evaluates. A checkmark means the review ran and found no matching issues in that category for this version.
Data Exfiltration
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Unauthorized Data Collection
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Network Interception
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Code Injection
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Credential Theft
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Obfuscation
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Tracking
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Privilege Escalation
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Phishing
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Remote Code Loading
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
Other
Code review completed; no malicious patterns detected for this category.
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About this extension
Display web pages using IE within Chrome. Use Java, Silverlight, ActiveX, Sharepoint, and more.
Read the publisher’s full description
IE Tab exactly emulates Internet Explorer, and enables you to load your web pages with different versions of IE (IE7 - IE11) FULLY SUPPORTED IN WINDOWS 11 AND AFTER INTERNET EXPLORER IS REMOVED IN FEBRUARY 2023. Please note that IE Tab for Windows does require the use of a separate executable, ietabhelper.exe. You can read more about that in the FAQ below. -- FEATURES -- * Create a list of URLs that will automatically open in IE Tab * Group Policy support for enterprise deployments * Securely use the old IE rendering engine * Edit Sharepoint documents instead of opening read-only * Use Java, Silverlight, and ActiveX in Chrome seamlessly -- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS -- 1. Why do I have to install ietabhelper.exe? IE Tab uses the Internet Explorer rendering engine. This rendering engine can't be directly accessed from a Chrome extension, so we need a helper process to communicate between the Chrome extension and the rendering engine. 2. Did IE Tab always require this extra program? No. Chrome used to support a technology called NPAPI (the Netscape Plugin API) which allowed extensions to access local computer resources. IE Tab used to use that functionality to access the Internet Explorer rendering engine. But Chrome removed NPAPI support, so we were forced to implement a new solution, and that solution requires a separate helper executable. From a technical standpoint, the only real change is that our code moved from an NPAPI .DLL file to a helper .EXE file. 3. Is the IE Tab Helper application safe? Absolutely! IE Tab has always used native code, and we have always treated the security of our 2+ million users very seriously. So you can rest assured that this helper executable is secure and trustworthy. 4. I'm an enterprise customer, how do I deploy the IE Tab Helper automatically? We have enterprise deployment options, please contact us at support@ietab.net for details. The Privacy Policy for the IE Tab extension can be found here: http://www.ietab.net/privacy-policy
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