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A number of Google Chrome users recently became aware of the fact that not only does their browser allow them to surf the web, it also quietly scans their personal files without prior consent.
They are scanning to make sure no malware is trying to manipulate Chrome and cause it to do things on the back end you may not be aware. It doesn't scan your personal information to send it to Google or anything of that nature.
It still scans and reports back all the software on your computer. Supposedly it's looking for buggy extensions, but doesn't stop its scan at at that. I turned the scanning off. Also, the program uses a fair amount of CPU when it's running. That's how I found it and learned about it. (process explorer etc.)
This is not to be confused with google update service. You can turn that off through services.msc or keep it from loading in the first place with msconfig.
A number of Google Chrome users recently became aware of the fact that not only does their browser allow them to surf the web, it also quietly scans their personal files without prior consent.
Oh, uh... gee. What a... um, surprise.
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