<![CDATA[Urgent Chrome update: BEWARE!!]]>Hi everyone!

I just got a pop-up in Opera with nothing more than this:

Urgent Chrome update. Below it is a download link and a large google chrome logo.

Please BEWARE if you receive this as it is malware or a virus. Something similar is also happening with the Firefox browser.

DO NOT click on the download link. This is NOT how Opera does it's updates!

Karen

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/17510/urgent-chrome-update-bewareRSS for NodeTue, 10 Mar 2026 20:31:32 GMTSun, 09 Oct 2016 18:08:32 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Urgent Chrome update: BEWARE!! on Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:49:04 GMT]]>For a non-Chrome web browser like Firefox to display an "urgent pop-up warning" about a Chrome browser update, the mechanism creating that message has to exist in: the system, its scheduler, or a specific malicious website (or an ad it's hosting). If the message is being triggered by your system or its scheduler, it indicates at least a system-account-level penetration by malware. If the message is triggered by a visiting a particular website, then you're dealing with a corrupt website or a malicious ad which the site is hosting.

You haven't linked the pop-up to a particular website URL in your posts, leading to a suspicion there is malware on your system. Is the pop-up occurring at multiple sites or at just one URL (in which case, which one? -- and please obfuscate any URL spelling of that site as noted earlier)?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/108466https://forums.opera.com/post/108466Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:49:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Urgent Chrome update: BEWARE!! on Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:47:44 GMT]]>Saw a post on Slashdot ... were you visiting Spotify when it happened?

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/16/10/09/208249/a-spotify-ad-slipped-malware-onto-pcs-and-macs

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/108465https://forums.opera.com/post/108465Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:47:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Urgent Chrome update: BEWARE!! on Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:10:59 GMT]]>Checked my entire system for viruses and malware. All is good!!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/108464https://forums.opera.com/post/108464Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:10:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Urgent Chrome update: BEWARE!! on Mon, 10 Oct 2016 10:32:25 GMT]]>
  • "Urgent" is malware, high chance.
  • We don't see anything - it's a vermin on your system, check it.
  • If in Chrome, you could receive a link without any risk by copying the whole thing then pasting it into a Word or similar document, where there are menus as to work with links.
    • ]]>    https://forums.opera.com/post/108448https://forums.opera.com/post/108448Mon, 10 Oct 2016 10:32:25 GMT    <![CDATA[Reply to Urgent Chrome update: BEWARE!! on Sun, 09 Oct 2016 19:43:33 GMT]]>I agree with @leocg. Malware-scan your system, since the pop-up's showing up while using two completely different browsers.

    Can you determine the URL underlying the download link (without left-clicking on it)? If so, can you post it here with obfuscation (ie: make it unclickable by changing the http portion of the URL into something like hxxp or h--ps).

    ]]>    https://forums.opera.com/post/108422https://forums.opera.com/post/108422Sun, 09 Oct 2016 19:43:33 GMT    <![CDATA[Reply to Urgent Chrome update: BEWARE!! on Sun, 09 Oct 2016 19:03:37 GMT]]>If you were not on a (suspicious) page that may have shown that pop-up, I think you should scan your system for malwares.

    ]]>    https://forums.opera.com/post/108409https://forums.opera.com/post/108409Sun, 09 Oct 2016 19:03:37 GMT