Mathedman wrote:
On 9/13/2018 6:46 PM, Stan Brown wrote:
Fun article from How-to Geek today, about Microsoft's latest Windows
10 updates, that now tell you Chrome and Frirefox are unsafe when you
try to download them.
https://www.howtogeek.com/365983/win...-push-firefox-
and-chrome-over-the-edge/
I'm still a 7-user. curious, I downloaded Chrome ---big mistake ---
a lot of other stuff (I know not what) came with it. And now
much of we used to call "freeware" or "share ware" comes
with Crome included!
Like wise, a Firefox download messes with other stuff ---including
replacing all the desktop icons with a Firefox logo.
Presumably you downloaded Chrome from a Google site.
And your Chrome wasn't a drive-by install which included
other PUPs as part of the payload.
Chrome has a couple Google Updater services. The Updater
services stay on the computer, and update any of a number
of Google programs. And even if you removed all Google
stuff, you might have to remove the Updater materials
manually.
What was funny about the drive-by install thing, was that
a couple people got Chromium on the machine. Chromium is
the open source fork of Chrome. And the web site where
Chromium is located, even makes it hard to get a copy
of Chromium if you wanted to test it. I don't think
anyone is paying to promote that, and yet... machines
with Chromium, where the user swears they didn't download it.
*******
Of course it's possible for icons to be screwed up.
And you have to think through the whole "binding" process
for file extensions, to figure out what happened. I bet
the files on your desktop had a particular file extension,
and you're doing something that we're not doing.
Paul