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I really hate it when suddenly out of the blue, my Comodo asks permission for some random 'setup.exe' to change things in the Google Chrome folder. If you're ma
by sundarurfriend 17y ago
I really hate it when suddenly out of the blue, my Comodo asks permission for some random 'setup.exe' to change things in the Google Chrome folder. If you're making me practise allowing this, you're making me learn to allow cleverly contrived cracker attacks.
At the minimum, if you don't like asking user's permission to install stuff on his/her own computer, please for heaven's sake _inform_ me (within the browser) that you've got an update and are going to update yourself at some random point in the future. Then, I'll have at least a very little amount of confidence that this setup.exe isn't something evil.
There are many things wrong about Google's update mechanism from running a GoogleUpdate.exe at startup and then continuously without permission (what, are you Adobe?) to updating my software silently without even providing an option for how it's done.
If you're trying for the IE marketshare, make what they want the defaults, and give the advanced users _some_ way to customize things. I'd be happy even to have even the slightly advanced options in an about:config window, rather than not have them at all.