Warning: Attackers can Steal Windows Credentials using Google Chrome

[Layback Bear]

Through the years I have use many if not all browsers at one time or the other.
All of them keep changing, so it's hard to tell at any one time which is the best.

For the last few years I have been using Firefox. I like it and it likes my computers.
It's simple to use with out adding a bunch of add on's. I keep it simple.
I keep it update and it works. That's it.

I have tried Chrome a few times through the years and have yet like it. Every update seem to add something I didn't want from a browser.
Just be a browser and leave me alone. I will take care of the rest.

Jack

 

[michael diemer]

I'm using Vivaldi. Beautiful and fast.

 

[Melchior]

I'm using Vivaldi. Beautiful and fast.

That's a web browser? hm.. never heard of that one..

 

[tetraps]

That's a web browser? hm.. never heard of that one..

It's based on Chromium and created by some former Opera devs.

Vivaldi is very promising. It has many options for users to customize the UI. The only major thing it's missing right now is cloud sync between devices (for bookmarks, history, etc.) - once that feature is implemented, I plan to switch to Vivaldi as my main browser.

 

[Melchior]

ok...

 

[SCANNERMAN777]

What Jack Said

Through the years I have use many if not all browsers at one time or the other.
All of them keep changing, so it's hard to tell at any one time which is the best.

For the last few years I have been using Firefox. I like it and it likes my computers.
It's simple to use with out adding a bunch of add on's. I keep it simple.
I keep it update and it works. That's it.

I have tried Chrome a few times through the years and have yet like it. Every update seem to add something I didn't want from a browser.
Just be a browser and leave me alone. I will take care of the rest.

Jack

Yes, yes, and yes!

 

[Digital Life]

That's a web browser? hm.. never heard of that one..

I'm trying out one you probably never heard of before either it's called

IceCat

Introducing GNUzilla and IceCat

GNUzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. Its main advantage is an ethical one: it is entirely free software. While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and recommend non-free software as plug-ins and addons. Also their trademark license restricts distribution in several ways incompatible with freedom 0.

 

[RBS7]

Browsers are so subjective, it is like asking people what is their favorite color.

Chrome is my usual browser, but I am starting to use Firefox more and more. Version 59+ of Chrome is displaying things in unusual ways, for some pages. I have given up on IE or Edge on 10.

 

[SCANNERMAN777]

From I.E. to CHROME to FIRE FOX

I'm still using Fire Fox but hoping they'll work out the scripting issues soon. The whole security saga with Windows continues same as it ever was. I wouldn't say that it is exactly soothing knowledge that the tool package NSA used is now at the disposal of every two bit hacker and script kiddie but what can you do? Methinks I'm too old to learn Linux and the forums there are nearly as cold as the heart of the D Wave in Burnaby, B.C.

 

[Melchior]

I'm still using Fire Fox but hoping they'll work out the scripting issues soon. The whole security saga with Windows continues same as it ever was. I wouldn't say that it is exactly soothing knowledge that the tool package NSA used is now at the disposal of every two bit hacker and script kiddie but what can you do? Methinks I'm too old to learn Linux and the forums there are nearly as cold as the heart of the D Wave in Burnaby, B.C.

lol yeah.. :sarc:

 

[TechnoMage2016]

At 74 I'm still a working PC tech. Of course, I'm not as busy as I once was.
But almost every time I go to work on a PC that I've never seen before, I find Chrome installed and trying to take over. I will ask my customer, "Do you use Chrome?".
And almost without fail I get an answer something like "What is it?".
Heck, they don't even know what it is, or where it came from and they just want it gone!

With great pleasure, I remove that thing that sneaks in like a virus and just like a virus tries to take over.
Then I make sure that Mozilla Firefox is up to date and that it's using a Secure Search Engine like "Startpage.com".

The only Chrome I like is that which is on my car!

Cheers mates!

 

[Melchior]

lol yeah.. ICK Chrome!
Firefox F.O.R.E.V.E.R.!!

 

[Iain]

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I have an Win 7 credentials issue with my Win 7 Ultimate machine and don't know what to do about it.

That secondary machine is on my LAN and is only used for programme development for my use only. IOW, it's seldom used. I purchased it in 2007 and it was my primary machine until 2015, when I purchased the one I'm typing on now. I did have Chrome installed on the secondary machine for a few weeks, until I removed it in 2012 or 2013. It was fine with no Win authentication issues in 2015, but they first appeared in 2016.

I've always used the latest version of Firefox, otherwise.

How can I resolve this problem?

 

[TechnoMage2016]

Can you explain, just what your 'Credential' problem is? With more info, someone might be able to help you. Maybe even start a new thread, concerning just your problem.

I'm not surprised that Chrome can be a problem. I find it on my customer's PC's and they have no idea what it is or where it came from. It acts just like a Computer Virus, sneaking onto people's PC's and then trying to take over. I delete it, wherever I find it.

I can't imagine ever downloading it and installing it on my own PC. I do download and test a lot of software and occasionally Chrome will sneak in on me. As soon as I discover it, I DELETE it!

I've been using Firefox since it took over from Netscape, years ago. I went through all the Beta versions and I was right there on Day One, when Mozilla released Firefox ver. 1.0, along with ONE MILLION other users.
You know their servers had to be smoking, after downloading one million copies of Firefox in just a 24 hr period. I'm glad I wasn't their IT guy!

Cheers mates!
TechnoMage

 

[SCANNERMAN777]

Chromium is another nasty. You'll need to do regedit to get rid of Chromium. "Thorough" uninstalls won't completely remove it.