Latest Google Chrome update - WTH!?

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Did anyone else have the last Google Chrome update try to install something like three or four programs including a new PC backup utility, a desktop organizer, and all kinds of really bad toolbars? What I've noticed is that it keeps telling me that I need to install the latest version now after I refused all the crap they were putting on my computer. If that turns out to be a new direction in Google service I'd have to admit I'm in a bad way - what with it now going to the same heap with Internet Explorer and Mozilla.

I'd hazard a guess that it's a virus of some sort.

Those things have nothing to do with the Chrome installation or update.

It could be malware but if so it's like nothing I've ever seen before. I did download Malwarebytes and I've been cleaning off as much garbage as I possibly can.

If nothing else works, get rid of Chrome, and use Chromium, which is essentially Chrome w/o all of the other crap from Google.

I would say that all of the features Chrome has that Chromium lacks, except for user metrics and crash reporting, are valuable to the user.

I've used Avast, I've used Malwarebytes, and I'm still getting pop-up raped. I clicked a button on the browser, it doesn't work, oh yeah - duh - a replacement redirect page advertising eclipses it, every third or forth site I visit.

I think so. I have Chrome on Win7 Mac OS 10.8 and iOS 7 and I have seen nothing like the stuff the OP describes.

I found the culprit. It was a valid Google extention called 'Lyrics Monkey'. I had a pop up add for FLV player every third new page I loaded and an entire website, another forum I'd go to, was completely and totally blocked off by their rubbish.

I'm pretty sure it was a Google thing.