Google Chrome now has a built-in anti-virus for Windows

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  1. xxJackxx

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    Thoughts on this? I don't care for the idea.
     
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    That makes two of us. I just hope they provide the option to disable it entirely, otherwise I'll move to Firefox full time.
     
  4. elapsed

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    Just turn it off.
     
  5. The Red Moon

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    interesting thought that google could enter the av market also.
     
  6. xxJackxx

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    Same here. Firefox 57 is making me like Firefox again.

    I hope turning it off is a reasonable option (multiple people at work using it) as it is bad enough with all of the other services and scheduled tasks they are running. I wonder if turning it off will actually turn it off.
     
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    Oh please, stop being a sheep and reading nothing but the sensationalized title.

    This isn't going to be a full blown AV.
     
  8. Brummelchen

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    google owns virustotal, why switching?
    i think its only "cloud" usage.
    nevertheless google chrome is blown - i stay with chromium (no updater, no toolbar, no extension, no this or that)
     
  9. pandlouk

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    And this **** will be installed and activated by default?

    Do Google, Microsoft, Apple and all these %$#|% companies think that our data and hardware is their own to scan whenever they like?

    Telemetry, scanning, keytyping, microphone and camera monitoring for our own good....
    ...but hey as Apple says they are commited to protect and safeguard our personal data (data that was "stolen" from us by them) in the first place.

    Has the entire tech community gone nuts this last decade? :sick:

    Panagiotis
     
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    Of note:
     
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    Quote from above link

    I'm using ESET so this new feature is not useful
     
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    Per Eset, this new Chrome PUA detection is nothing more than a weekly off-line scan:
    https://forum.eset.com/topic/13438-impact-of-google-cleanup/?do=findComment&comment=66976
     
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    Yes, it's basically them expanding the current cleanup implementation to also include things that are hostile towards Chrome (search hijacks, extensions, etc).

    It is completely a self-interested change to improve the experience for Chrome users, and a good change at that. Anyone not interested will just disable it.

    Calling it "anti-virus" was 100% clickbait, it's interesting the amount of people that just read a headline and go on a anti-Chrome crusade. "This fits my narrative it must be true".
     
  16. Brummelchen

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    mozilla and its annoying system extension to "improve" firefox - and chrome raging in our systems with its cleanup. i really hope that chromium is free of this crap!
     
  17. Trooper

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    Read about this yesterday. I have mixed feelings on it. I for one would not want it on. But for my end users, perhaps lol.
     
  18. Trooper

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    I am sure it will be.
     
  19. Kirk Reynolds

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    Sounds like it's probably a good thing for the average users. We know how easily they get hijacked clicking on this and that installing toolbars and other PUA's.
     
  20. Robin A.

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    I agree. Just replace "they" with "we".
     
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    *Han Solo voice* ~ I have a bad feeling about this ...
     
  22. Kirk Reynolds

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    Well using "we" implies that everyone is the average user in the context of what I said, and that's not the case. It's not a big deal to me either way though, whatever floats your boat. ;)
     
  23. zapjb

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    Guess this AV comes with auto-delete because Google knows best.

    Remember the old Google motto?

    “Don’t be evil.”

    Hard to believe. And as the years go by less & less care.
     
  24. roger_m

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    No, it prompts you and asks you if you want to remove it.
    Also, there is this:
    I personally think it's a good idea, but only because it prompts you before taking action. However, I use a third party Chrome based browser (Cent Browser) rather than Chrome itself. So maybe, I won't get it.
     
  25. zapjb

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    Can you initiate a scan?
     
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