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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Jan 2017
EstimatedDays: ----
NextAction: ----
OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug-Security



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Rec'd "Chrome Critical Update" pop-up asking to "Download Now"

Reported by eckert.a...@gmail.com, Jan 25 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. See below please.
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What is the expected behavior?
Un-expected pop-up security concern displayed on new tab.

What went wrong?
I was on Zillow website (a map to a house) https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/0/#inbox/159d55f17b068337 when I rec'd an unrequested pop-up (new tab opened) with Chrome logo and "Chrome Critical Update" statement, along with a "Download Now" button.  Here's the pop-up web site: https://feisuteleseminariosdepnl.org/6043634691245/1ae9460a8e328eaa81c609a2265ee3f9/f96d20240f3fc0a2e5a6daf54d38ee07.html   

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 55.0.2883.87  Channel: stable
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 24.0 r0

Hope this helps.
 

Comment 1 by est...@chromium.org, Jan 25 2017

Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
It sounds like you might have some malware or adware on your machine. You should probably try running the Chrome Cleanup Tool to get rid of it: https://www.google.com/chrome/cleanup-tool/

This bug tracker is for issues in the Chrome browser, so I'm closing this report. Good luck!
Project Member

Comment 2 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, May 4 2017

Labels: -Restrict-View-SecurityTeam allpublic
This bug has been closed for more than 14 weeks. Removing security view restrictions.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

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