Chrome

OK, my Win7 x64 machine updated overnight and installed Chrome. As I
have no use for Chrome (I think it's alpha/beta ware and/or a virus),
I uninstalled it. Now most of the programs I use are screwed up. My
desktop is non-functional and I've had to do a restore to a couple of
weeks ago.
Question: How do I prevent Chrome from being on my machine in any
form? How do I prevent future installs (without my knowledge)?
I don't care what you think about Chrome, I just want to know if there
is a procedure/method to prevent this program from even installing.
R. Wink

rwwink wrote:
OK, my Win7 x64 machine updated overnight and installed Chrome. As I
have no use for Chrome (I think it's alpha/beta ware and/or a virus),
I uninstalled it. Now most of the programs I use are screwed up. My
desktop is non-functional and I've had to do a restore to a couple of
weeks ago.
Question: How do I prevent Chrome from being on my machine in any
form? How do I prevent future installs (without my knowledge)?
I don't care what you think about Chrome, I just want to know if there
is a procedure/method to prevent this program from even installing.
R. Wink

Chrome is not part of Windows.
Odds are you have something Google on your computer.
Delete Google and everything associated with Google and don't let it back on.

KenW wrote:
On Tue, 04 Jul 2017 10:20:36 -0500, rwwink wrote:

OK, my Win7 x64 machine updated overnight and installed Chrome. As I
have no use for Chrome (I think it's alpha/beta ware and/or a virus),
I uninstalled it. Now most of the programs I use are screwed up. My
desktop is non-functional and I've had to do a restore to a couple of
weeks ago.
Question: How do I prevent Chrome from being on my machine in any
form? How do I prevent future installs (without my knowledge)?
I don't care what you think about Chrome, I just want to know if there
is a procedure/method to prevent this program from even installing.
R. Wink

Updated WHAT ? MS doesn't install chrome.

KenW

Try this on as a theory.

1) OP installs Java JRE from Sun/Oracle (Sun invented it).
2) OP leaves Java Updater set to auto.
3) Oracle ships a Java Update with the Google Chrome Installer
as part of it. (Oracle makes a dollar for themselves, for
each schmuck tricked into accepting the Chrome Installer.)

When a Java Update is done, stand alone, the Chrome Installer
is a tick box you can untick. Dunno what happens if
it auto-updates while you are not there. Oracle would
never miss an opportunity to make a dollar.

Uninstalling Chrome or Chromium is easy.

Look for the "chrome.7z" file (use Agent Ransack if you cannot
find it using the regular way).

Next to it, should be a setup.exe.

In a command prompt window, you "cd" to the place holding
chrome.7z (approx 150MB) and setup.exe (approx 1MB).

cd /d C:\path\to\these\files

if a chromium installation:

setup.exe --uninstall

if a chrome installation:

setup.exe --uninstall --multi-install --chrome --system-level

In the browser "About" item, you can probably find details
about the branding, as to whether it is Google Chrome,
or the Open Source Chromium version. One poster managed
to get the latter version on their computer (unknown to them),
but I'm unaware of Google paying a buck for that one. Most of
the time, it's going to be actual Google Chrome, and the latter
command is the one to use. With Chromium, I had trouble
finding a download to use, to verify the above.

HTH,
Paul

On 7/4/2017 8:20 AM, rwwink wrote:
OK, my Win7 x64 machine updated overnight and installed Chrome. As I
have no use for Chrome (I think it's alpha/beta ware and/or a virus),
I uninstalled it. Now most of the programs I use are screwed up. My
desktop is non-functional and I've had to do a restore to a couple of
weeks ago.
Question: How do I prevent Chrome from being on my machine in any
form? How do I prevent future installs (without my knowledge)?
I don't care what you think about Chrome, I just want to know if there
is a procedure/method to prevent this program from even installing.
R. Wink


I use AVG Anti-Virus Free. I have automatic software updates blocked
(but not automatic virus database updates). When I got a notice that my
version of AVG Anti-Virus Free was obsolete and that I needed to update,
I accepted the update. BOOM! Chrome was installed without any option
to suppress it, and my default browser (SeaMonkey) was no longer my
default.

I uninstalled Chrome, but pieces of it remained. Some of those pieces
were over 1 MB. When I tried to remove the largest such piece AVG
Anti-Virus Free itself became non-functional. I had to use the AVG
Remover tool THREE TIMES to clean up the mess. Then, when I installed a
clean, new version of AVG Anti-Virus Free, I got and used the option to
suppress it.

Still, SeaMonkey was not being recognized as my default browser. I had
to go to [Settings Control Panel Internet Options Programs Set
Programs] to restore SeaMonkey as my default browser.

All that happened last Thursday (29 June). Today, I went to update AVG
Anti-Virus Free on my wife's PC. There was no option to suppress
Chrome, but Chrome was NOT installed. I attribute this to the fact that
my wife's PC is old and still runs Windows XP.

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President Trump now denies there are any tapes that
recorded his conversations with ex-FBI Director Comey.
Between when Trump hinted there might be such tapes
and his denial, there was sufficient time to destroy
any tapes.

I don't know for sure but I believe AVG did an update and it normal
wants to install chrome. No, I didn't give it permission to do an up
dater.
R. Wink

On Tue, 04 Jul 2017 09:54:43 -0600, KenW wrote:

On Tue, 04 Jul 2017 10:20:36 -0500, rwwink wrote:

OK, my Win7 x64 machine updated overnight and installed Chrome. As I
have no use for Chrome (I think it's alpha/beta ware and/or a virus),
I uninstalled it. Now most of the programs I use are screwed up. My
desktop is non-functional and I've had to do a restore to a couple of
weeks ago.
Question: How do I prevent Chrome from being on my machine in any
form? How do I prevent future installs (without my knowledge)?
I don't care what you think about Chrome, I just want to know if there
is a procedure/method to prevent this program from even installing.
R. Wink

Updated WHAT ? MS doesn't install chrome.


KenW

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On Tue, 04 Jul 2017 15:17:02 -0500, rwwink wrote:

I don't know for sure but I believe AVG did an update and it normal
wants to install chrome. No, I didn't give it permission to do an up
dater.
R. Wink

Yes, AVG and Avast will do that if you let them. I always use the custom
merhod with Avast and set programme updates to manual.
I'm also on the Beta channel, so if I do allow it to update (not many MB
that way) it doesn't tend to go against the prefs. of the original setup.
The only link that I can find for the offline installer for AVG is from
February.
There are some around but I prfer the links via the forums.

On Tue, 04 Jul 2017 09:54:43 -0600, KenW wrote:

On Tue, 04 Jul 2017 10:20:36 -0500, rwwink wrote:

OK, my Win7 x64 machine updated overnight and installed Chrome. As I
have no use for Chrome (I think it's alpha/beta ware and/or a virus),
I uninstalled it. Now most of the programs I use are screwed up. My
desktop is non-functional and I've had to do a restore to a couple of
weeks ago.
Question: How do I prevent Chrome from being on my machine in any
form? How do I prevent future installs (without my knowledge)?
I don't care what you think about Chrome, I just want to know if there
is a procedure/method to prevent this program from even installing.
R. Wink

Updated WHAT ? MS doesn't install chrome.


KenW

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http://www.avg.com


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On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 22:09:04 +0100, PeterC wrote:
On Tue, 04 Jul 2017 15:17:02 -0500, rwwink wrote:

I don't know for sure but I believe AVG did an update and it normal
wants to install chrome. No, I didn't give it permission to do an up
dater.
R. Wink

Yes, AVG and Avast will do that if you let them.


Or if you don't, at least in the case of Avast. I watch installations
like a hawk, and Avast 2015 (I think it was) installed Chrome, made
it the default browser, and did some other stuff, without my
permission and without asking me. And -- standard thing -- I couldn't
uninstall the unwanted stuff. I used System Restore to get back to
Avast 2014, and since then I update the virus defs but not the
program.

People at the time didn't believe me, and said I must have agreed
without remembering, but eventually there were reports from different
people of the installer doing different things, and some reproduced
my experience.

When I installed BitDefender about a year ago on my other laptop,
there was none of that nonsense.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://BrownMath.com/
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
Shikata ga nai...

On 7/4/2017 10:20 AM, rwwink wrote:
OK, my Win7 x64 machine updated overnight and installed Chrome. As I
have no use for Chrome (I think it's alpha/beta ware and/or a virus),
I uninstalled it. Now most of the programs I use are screwed up. My
desktop is non-functional and I've had to do a restore to a couple of
weeks ago.
Question: How do I prevent Chrome from being on my machine in any
form? How do I prevent future installs (without my knowledge)?
I don't care what you think about Chrome, I just want to know if there
is a procedure/method to prevent this program from even installing.
R. Wink

I can't imagine why Google wants to mess up our machines!
I've been through the same routine. Downloaded a small freeware
utility and wash really annoyed to find that it also insralled
Chrome and messed up my machine. Had to do a system restore to
clean up the mess!

On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 08:10:42 -0500, Mathedman wrote:
I can't imagine why Google wants to mess up our machines!


Really?

Well, just in case you really don't know --

The information they get from tracking your Web browsing is worth
money to them.

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://BrownMath.com/
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
Shikata ga nai...