Do the users get sick when they have Chromium installed? I've heard of flyby installs of Chrome and the Ask toolbar, but chromium? that is wicked!
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > Trying to give back a bit to the community... > > We've found that folks who are blindly accepting Adobe product updates > are currently getting Chromium installed, and it's causing problems. > > During the Chromium install, it sets itself as the default browser, > which causes at least two problems: > > 1) Users were unable to click on links in Outlook 2010 getting "Unable > to open this link due to restrictions in this computer? Contact your > administrator for help". This fixed it: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310049 > > 2) Users were using IE 7/8/9 to browse to ftp sites, but then were > unable to open the site with Windows Explorer. The fix was to export > the registry hive at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/ftp from a working machine and > import it to the affected machine. > > In all cases we have removed Chromium where the users had these > problems. There might be other fixes, but these worked for us. > > Kurt > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
