The Chromium Virus
This post is intended to help you do two things, especially if you use Google Chrome as I do and most of us in this community do
In our Lodge, we use a laptop and I have an office desktop, both of which use Chrome, but have firefox as a back up for many different reasons
However, just recently, the laptop, managed to attract the awful Chromium Browser Virus, which is full of Malware, from our lap top which has Windows 10 installed.
The Chromium Browser in its own right is a legitimate browser and is open source, but for some reason, it managed to install itself onto the laptop. I suspect the fact that it is open source, means some one somewhere, decided to corrupt it
Anyway it showed up and the first sign something was wrong, came when I opened up Chrome as usual, but instead of my usual home pages coming up, I was diverted to the Chromium Browser Tab on another page
The Chromium Tab, looks the same as the Chrome Tab, but it is all blue, unlike the Chrome we know and love : )
It is an irritation and fairly difficult to remove, because its a self replicating virus, so it goes every where and slows your PC performance right down.
Eventually after a few days of trying & Googling how to remove it,I actually thought I had done it once, only to find it happen again on start up with Chrome I finally managed to do this yesterday evening which was a relief : )
So if you have the Chromium virus this is how I got rid of it ( it was the easiest method I found)
Chromium Virus Browser Removal
The first thing you have to do is close all the broswer tabs you have open
Then in the search window by your start windows in the bottom left hand corner
Type in Task Manager
This opens up a new window, which gives a ton of different tabs, from those tabs choose
Start Up
In there you will see Chromium together with its badge. Right Click on this
You are then given an option to go to File Location
Once there, highlight and right click on Chromium and this will delete it to the recycle bin
From here go back to the task manager, go to the Start Up and right click again, choosing the disable option
Once that is done go to the recycle bin on your desktop or wherever you keep it
Empty it!
Doing this should remove all the components from your computer.
This is what I did, the actual time taken to do this was around 5 minutes and I was going slow to make sure I was doing it ok
Once you have it removed, log off and then logon again to your computer.
On start up, you should just get your home page up and a bit quicker than before
This means there are no traces of Chromium on Your PC that you know about
Hope this helps, because there is nothing more frustrating than a slower running PC
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Thanks for the information. You really can be infected with a virus when you download and install unknown applications. It's better not to explore an unpopular program than to be regretful because it's so burdensome.
Absolutely, but the thing is with this, that It came in with Chrome, How I have no idea, but in it came : )
Thankfully binned it
Thank you for sharing much apreciated
I was having problems with my firewall yesterday and could not log into Wealthy Affiliate at all for the whole day.
Not sure what was happening but for some reason everything is working just fine now. Puzzling.
Thank you for the blog it is good to know that I am not alone in this.
Jennifer
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It's on my iMac -- any ideas on how to get rid of it...? Thanks!
Sorry Amy, no idea I'm afraid, I got rid of mine, as per my article, but it took a few searches before I found a simple answer
If it helps, I tried this in searches "How do I get rid of the Chromium Virus on Windows 10 for free"
That brought me to one I wrote about
BTW I dislike W10, but sadly it forced itself onto my wifes computer ( How I don't know!)