I was going about trying to manage my Google Play Music tonight and it asked me to nab Google Chrome to use the Music Manager. This of course is no problem for me, although I prefer Opera. I go to download Chrome (From Google directly) and everything is installing just fine. Right as the window pops up after the install (the first instance of Chrome), a copy of Internet Explorer decided to open itself up with it. From there it opened up a page directly:
http://i.imgur.com/f8U18sm.png
The only things running on the system were Skype, my graphics drivers, Steam and Opera next. The tabs open on Opera next were just DOTABUFF stats (no issue) and TweetDeck. My assumption is perhaps it was a flaw in TweetDeck (as it was recently compromised.) The page that came up in Internet Explorer was a fake Java update page. One of those ones that warns you that Java is “out of date”. Avast did not go off, and thankfull Virustotal shows that site as clean: https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/db2ef76da0250b6c1a717fc17d6f6defffaece87f87f8b6ca79503e67fa1ec66/analysis/1404636610/
But I’m just wanting to bring this to attention as it may be a flaw in the installer of Chrome or TweetDeck, but I’m not quite sure. I’mg going to follow through as I would with my system before (Going ahead and using Chrome and the Music Manager to nab all of my music) and leave Twitter etc open. I’ll see if the window decides to throw itself up again.
A couple of other programs that were running:
HiPatchService (this is the patch service that I have from playing Tribes:Ascend.)
Avast
Steam
Skype (I thought perhaps one of the ads on it would have triggered it, but every ad displayed linked to something Skype related directly form Microsoft.)
Chrome Downloader/Chrome itself
Opera Next (with DotaBuff/Tweetdeck open. Google Play Music was also open.
Nvidia GeForce Expierence (This manages my graphics drivers)
RzWizardService (Because of my mouse)
ScpService (a driver for my PS3 controller)
Puush (Screen capture and sharer for photos/files)
These are all programs that have run on my systems for years without issues, so I’m taking into account majorly, the couple of things that were actively doing something at the time. That was me opening Steam and me installing Chrome. What do you guys think? I’ll run a scan and Malware Bytes here in a bit, too and see what that pours in. Sorry for my poor wording on all of this, but it is four in the morning. Let me know if i should be totally concerned.
TL;DR
Installing Chrome and something came up in IE that shouldn’t have. Seems fine that it did, as I didn’t do anything besides close it (a little window came up “are you sure” nonsense.) Nothing wrong running on my system, Avast not pinger, Virustotal says it safe. Interesting little (potential) exploit inside of Chrome’s install that brings up a fake Java page. Should I be worried? Running system as if nothing happened. Scanning and stuff tomorrow/seeing if the page pops open again while it’s running while sleeping.
EDIT 1:
When it had me sign in on Chrome to download the Google app for the music, the number my verification code was sent from was different. Since I won’t be able to update you with an answer while I’m asleep on the matter, I’ll post the link on the Google product deal:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/gmail/report-an-issue/account-access-and-safety/google-chrome/IxXAyTBcs3A