That’s when the fan on her laptop roared to life. The CPU graph in Task Manager spiked to 100%. Her webcam LED flickered—a single, deliberate blink.

But below it, in fine print that was not there before: “This extension can read and change all your data on websites. This extension can manage your downloads. This extension can communicate with cooperating native applications.”

The link led to a site called . It had the gray, functional ugliness of a 2010s forum. A single green button: “IDM 6.07 Extension (Chrome).crx”

“The IDM 6.07 extension. It’s not a crack. It’s a cage. Call the cops. And for god’s sake – unplug your router.”