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Did CrossRider have any other users than companies wishing to install adware, changing browser start pages and similar shady shit? Sure, it could theoretically be used for other things but had it any significant number of honest users?

When I google CrossRider I virtually only get hits from various anti-malware companies, including Microsoft.

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I used crossrider at an earlier startup and migrated from it when I could stop supporting IE. It worked pretty well when it worked for cross browser extensions.

Our product (TipRanks) brought financial accountability to the market and it was a paid product. Our business model was just plain SaaS. While I am no longer there I think it's a decent and mostly honest company

Thanks for the reply. Did you have any issues with your extension being caught by malware removal programs?

It was misclassified once by an anti virus program. When we asked why they said that it was a known bug when using WinAPI APIs in BHOs (IE extensions)

They fixed it pretty soon. It was also a motivation to drop IE support (and crossrider) but we were mostly happy with them.

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