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My scary experience with chrome
I am the kind of guy who would even use IE without fear because I know how to stay away/get out of trouble.
So I downloaded chrome after reading all the hyped stories and this is what happened to me in the first coupls of hours. Atleast 2-3 times the entire browser crashed, not one tab - all of them. And heres the scary part, I opened a website which cause a popup window to open(and while I was about to cloase the window, I see some download progress at the bottom. Chrome downloaded and EXE file to my system(almost certainly a virus or spyware) without my permission almost without any notification. This is really scary, firefox and even IE even wont do that. They always ask for my permission before downloading such stuff. It might be a configurable item but this experience was enough for me to get back to my firefox/ie routine and uninstall chrome.
Posted by: micks_tricks   Posted on: 09/25/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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My scary experience with chrome  micks_tricks | 09/25/08
Chrome a security risk, use IE?  fr0thy2 | 09/25/08
Did you even read the comment?  micks_tricks | 09/25/08
The apologist is strong in fr0thy2  GuidingLight | 09/25/08
You describe yourself perfectly  fr0thy2 | 09/25/08
Wow, such a witty and whimsical  GuidingLight | 09/25/08
LOL - always very predictable and no relevance - nt  USTechHead | 09/25/08
Well, branding works on people who can't think for themselves  fr0thy2 | 09/26/08
LOL, no I posted here because it's at the top and I felt like it  fr0thy2 | 09/25/08
No he doesn't....nt  USTechHead | 09/25/08
See above  fr0thy2 | 09/26/08
Bingo! - Second in with a Negative - 10$ - THANK YOU - nt  USTechHead | 09/25/08
So USTechHead heads to the edge of the cliff with his mouse  fr0thy2 | 09/26/08
Folks this is beta; Pass at your own risk  D. T. Schmitz | 09/25/08
definitely!  Drakaran | 09/25/08
I second that demotion.  kozmcrae | 09/25/08
BETA...Google's most abused word & very convenient when something goes ...  transposeIT | 09/25/08
So I'm guessing the security risk in question is googles Keylogger?  Breetai | 09/25/08
RE: Is Chrome a security risk?  mead.rose@... | 09/25/08
RE: Is Chrome a security risk?  thinking about consequences | 09/25/08
RE: Is Chrome a security risk?  checkster1243 | 09/25/08
RE: Is Chrome a security risk?  Embedded_z | 09/25/08
Yeah but Linux isn't tryin to collect information about you  Breetai | 09/25/08
RE: Is Chrome a security risk?  rahduke | 09/25/08
RE: Is Chrome a security risk?  stan2234@... | 09/25/08
RE: Is Chrome a security risk?  jetsethi | 09/25/08
Unknown = risky  quux | 09/25/08
You need to look  Greenknight_z | 09/26/08
Re: finding a word or phrase  afern | 09/25/08
Is it? Ummm, yeah! http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1975  No_Ax_to_Grind | 09/26/08
RE: Is Chrome a security risk?  jacobfogg | 09/29/08
RE: Is Chrome a security risk?  richdave | 10/14/08

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