Still, if this doesn’t take away your worry, and you wish to ensure that your computer is safe, you can take a look at one of the guides linked below (pick the one written for the device and OS you have) and follow their instructions to clean your computer/phone and browser from any potentially unwanted or hazardous data/software. In fact, to the best of our knowledge, it meets or exceeds all of the Chrome store’s policies and guidelines. Make no mistake, the Hola extension does NOT contain malware, does not display ads, and above all, respects user privacy. It’s far more likely that a bug in the extension or some piece of code that is in contradiction with the Chrome Store policies is what has caused Google to flag it as a potential threat. The reason cited by the Chrome store was that the extension contains malware. If you are in a similar situation and are worried that your computer may be infected because you used to have the Hola extension in your Chrome browser, there’s probably no reason for concern – when the context of the situation is taken into account, it seems that the likelihood of the Hola VPN extension being involved with actual malware is rather low.

Some users who have had the Hola extension and have received a warning from Chrome that it may be infected with malware before the extension got removed from their browser have expressed their concern about the safety of their computers on online forums.

Thus far, Google hasn’t released an official statement that addresses the exact reason for taking down the Hola VPN extension from the Chrome Store.

At the moment of writing, the other Chrome extensions developed by Hola – Hola ad Remover and Hola Video Accelerator are available in the Chrome Store and there doesn’t seem to be any problem with them.

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