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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by jussij on Thursday October 17, 2013 @06:21PM (#6568559)
Google Chrome Updater certainly does have a few virus like characteristics.

Every time my interent connection slows (WiFi) I know it's Chrome Updater so I kill it via Task Manager and everthing is good again.

There doesn't apear to be away to turn it off inside Chrome itself and turning off updates via the registry does not seem to stop it.

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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by socillion on Thursday October 17, 2013 @08:23PM (#6569071)
You can try disabling (not deleting) the startup task. Start > Run > msconfig > Startup > Disable GoogleUpdater.exe

Or try Firefox!

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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by jussij on Thursday October 17, 2013 @09:01PM (#6569179)
Thanks. I give that a shot.
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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by samstave on Thursday October 17, 2013 @06:50PM (#6568702)
>Google Chrome Updater certainly does have a few virus like characteristics.

You could say it's in its DNA

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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by WiseWeasel on Thursday October 17, 2013 @08:56PM (#6569167)
Wouldn't it have to be in its RNA?

/ducks

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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by mbreese on Thursday October 17, 2013 @09:41PM (#6569284)
There are both DNA and RNA viruses.
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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by WiseWeasel on Friday October 18, 2013 @12:30AM (#6569781)
G(uanine), C(ytosine) and U(racil) are RNA nucleotides, so it seemed more appropriate somehow...
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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by mbreese on Saturday October 19, 2013 @12:26AM (#6575334)
I missed the fact that you were referring to "GCU". That was a little too subtle for my simple mind. :)
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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by _-_-_- on Thursday October 17, 2013 @11:01PM (#6569529)
And retroviruses- an RNA virus that reverse transcribes itself into a DNA provirus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_transcribing_virus
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