Unrecognised extension not getting removed on Brave Browser for Windows

[soumyodeep]

I have been trying to remove an unrecognized extension that is opening websites without my consent but am not able to remove it, because every time I remove it, it comes back again. I have had got my pc infected recently and used Anti Virus to clean it. Here’s a screenshot of my extension page.
It’s name is yEmbededFree

[Rethanis]

Sounds like you might have to manually remove the extension from your computer’s registries.

Take a look at my reply in the thread below, and try to find the appropriate directories. I’m running an old version of Windows so won’t be able to tell you the exact path to the directories.

What is Brave's registry location for extensions?

Brave uses Chrome’s registry directory. I had to deal with a nasty extension that kept re-installing itself automatically every time I created a user profile, and eventually clearing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Google\Chrome\Extensions fixed the issue, so Brave fetches data from Chrome’s registries.

P.S I just found an article that describes the exact path:

https://www.chromium.org/administrators/pre-installed-extensions

Check the following directories:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Google\Chrome\Extensions
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Google\Chrome\Extensions

[soumyodeep]

Hey, Thanks bro, I deleted the extension folder from both registry locations as you mentioned, but nothing seems to happen.

[Rethanis]

After you deleted extension’s folder from the registries, remove it once again at brave://extensions. It shouldn’t re-install itself if it was hidden in the registries.