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Showing Original Post only (View all)Watch out for the "Urgent Chrome Update" [View all]
It's a scam. It pops up as a new tab in Chrome. Don't click anything on it. It is no doubt malware or a password phishing exploit.
If you want to check for updates to Chrome, you can do it within the browser's tools. Chrome won't open a tab to tell you about it on some random basis.
This is a potentially bad scam. I just saw it. Don't fall for it!
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I had something like that happen ... The usual "X" close thingy didn't work, but Ctrl Shift Q did
progree
Mar 2017
#15
It also shows up as a critical alert from microsoft and locks your browser or it did until I
cstanleytech
Mar 2017
#17
I have an old computer. Running Vista still (lol) Google won't update Vista anymore.
YOHABLO
Mar 2017
#38