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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Ah, thanks Mitch. I'm always leery of plug-ins and usually when I check it out,
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Was looking for some free software that does something rather unique. Found one in CNET. Once a good source of clean freeware.
Using Chrome, I tried to download it. CNET loaded an installer progam, loaded AVG with all its toolbars, etc, loaded a URL and some registry setting to access Internet game programs, loaded some sort of browser monitoring program, a search engine, etc. None of which I wanted nor gave permission to load.
It added about six extensions to Chrome. Enables many startup programs (that load when the computer boots), disabled many setting in Chrome including the Bookmark toolbar, disabled the home page, and corrupted the preferences (options unique to different sites).
Well I expected this to happen. Figured I would get a listing of the many items changed by this once very responsible web site. It even took two reboots to clean out all the many changes and loaded programs.
Of course, Chrome does not use ActiveX. Problems are not limited to IE. Once you give permission to download something, well, fewer 'free' sites are that responsible anymore.