Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 and Windows 11 has again flagged ChromeSetup.exe – the installation file for Google’s famous Chrome browser – as potentially harmful. Microsoft Edge’s built-in security feature suggests users delete ChromeSetup.exe and try Edge via multiple pop-up messages.
Windows Latest understands Microsoft Edge 116 has incorrectly flagged ChromeSetup.exe as potentially harmful. This appears to be a mistake, and only some users see it. In our tests, we observed the error in one out of five Microsoft Edge 116 stable installations.
A “mistake”. I’m sure it was.
I saw some reports since February about that, so whatever they do, they don’t intend to stop.
https://twitter.com/PELock/status/1628165308489007105
Someone tell Microsoft that FUD tricks won’t work in this case. People want Chrome because it syncs with the Chrome running on their Android phone.
But the fact Microsoft uses security fearmongering and intrusive ads to scare people away from a competitor’s product shows how desperate they are.
As the old quote goes: “N̶e̶t̶s̶c̶a̶p̶e̶ Chrome will soon reduce Windows to a poorly debugged set of device drivers.” Ok, with the exception of creativity software like Adobe’s and games.
Basically, Microsoft is desperate to push Edge so they can try making the web proprietary again somehow (think ActiveX or the incompatible Java), and they are failing.
I’ve seen the “X could harm your device, do you want to keep it anyway?”. and it’s not specific to chrome. We can argue it’s a misleading message from microsoft, but it’s not just chrome, this is a generic warning they’re displaying for most 3rd party software. So I think the headline is rather misleading.
The following message “Microsoft Edge runs on the same technology as Chrome, with the added trust of Microsoft” is clearly targeting chrome intentionally. Microsoft have been doing the exact same thing to firefox downloads and in terms of market share microsoft’s manipulations appear to be working.
Microsoft are giving chrome the FU on bing, this is rude but at least microsoft owns bing. However that microsoft are actually manipulating the page on google’s website is appalling!
Is post editing is disabled now?
I mean they’re not wrong. Chrome SHOULD get a spyware/malware warning. It’s just that Edge isn’t much better.
Its all fair, google has been active seeking out bugs in microsoft edge since the spartan days to break https://www.youtube.com. I dont think its proactive enough, google has become steadily more difficult to deal with as a paid consumer. The new MS is Alphabet
Microsoft Edge ‘accidentally’ flags Chrome setup as harmful on Windows 11
there, fixed it…