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Article #457Re: Google Chrome oddity
From: Mark Anderson
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:37
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In article bje@ripco.com says... > Obnoxious maybe, evil, probably not. > > From what I understand (which is little), Chrome is unique because it's a > sandboxed browser. Other words, you shouldn't be able to hit a malicious > website which can grab your contacts/address book, plant viruses and so > forth. The thing that ticks me off is that I wasn't even using Chrome for anything. I installed it to try it out, didn't quite like it because I have everything just so with Firefox, and just never bothered to uninstall. When I saw chrome_installer.exe in the http requests I had completely forgot I even installed Chrome so it was a complete WTF for awhile. Also, like you said about accidentally doing something and having it go haywire, after reviewing more logs there might have been something I did that triggered the google updater to go haywire. I'm not that interested in figuring that out however. Any software that does this I consider malicious. Software should only speak when spoken to. So if Chrome is not being used, it means I don't give a crap about any of its updates. I remember awhile back installing Google's Picassa on a linux box and the damned program, before letting me set the gallery directory, scanned my entire hard drive for images. Picassa got deleted immediately once I heard the hard drives stop crunching.
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