NotHereToPlayGames

Agreed. As an admin on another forum, we get these ALL THE TIME. Sure, a "bot" created them, but the "member" visits ONCE and never again, no spam posts ever posted by the "member". Makes for a tough world for "statisticians" (do you really think there are 2.5 billion users on Instagram? how many have multiple accounts, how many are "bot accounts", et cetera)

My dad would buy a brand new computer every two years! Complained it was "slow" so he would just go out and buy new! It took YEARS to finally convince him that "electrons don't slow down with AGE, your computer is slow because the REGISTRY is not being MAINTAINED". Of course, I could never "train an old dog" on how to MAINTAIN the registy. But I could teach him to REINSTALL WINDOWS every two years and be back to BRAND-NEW FAST without spending money on a new computer.

Where is the nearest brick wall? I'd like to argue with the brick wall instead.

I cannot replicate what you are seeing, Astro. This could be YOUR Thorium and not "everybody's" Thorium. Even without my "loader", I can carry my EXTENSIONS, settings and all!, from one computer to another - even to one that has NEVER had Thorium on it and does NOT have Thorium's registry-writes. You just might be "adamant" about something that is only true for you. Again, even without my "loader", I cannot replicate your notion that extensions are tied to registry-writes. You keep pounding the table with this, over and over. I've asked for extension examples in the past and you declined to provide, claiming it is with all extension. Again, I cannot replicate. This may be YOUR profile and yours ALONE. Or just ONE of your extensions and you won't reveal that to us for us to verify. I cannot replicate your claim.

Ever want to totally corrupt your computer - install Avast or McAfee then try to uninstall it. Be warned.

Personal preference. I run 50-some programs on my computer. Only TWO of them are allowed to write to the registry. I do that because Windows is NOTORIOUS for *mangled* registries. Uninstall a program, portions are still left in the registry, et cetera. 99 times out of 100, if your computer is "slow", it's because the registry is "mangled". Okay, call it 89 times out of 100, lol.

I can take my PORTABLE browser anywhere and pick up EXACTLY where I left off. I can browse in XP at home and then take it to work and pick up EXACTLY where I left off in Win10. I do that via X-Chrome's "loader". I've never actually tried Thorium via the .bat (I use a "loader" for ALL my browsers, be it Chrome/Chromium-based or Mozilla-based).

That .bat file does NOT make Thorium "portable" because registry-writes are stored on the host computer. That is a "simplistic" way of setting two "flags" for "encryption" and "machine-id", but a true PORTABLE browser requires more than that.

To me, it was more of a tie-in to this -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo%27_Money But that "didn't make sense" so then I assumed it was a new fork I've not yet heard of.

Not if you use (and know how to configure) a "portable loader".

Oh. MAYBE that should have been obvious. But it sure as h#ll wasn't to me. I thought there was some new Floorp or LibreWolf or Waterfox or Mercury or r3dfox or PCXFirefox or Cyberfox or IceCat or Basilisk or Iceweasel or TenFourFox or Cliqz or CometBird or IceDragon or or or or or or or...

What the h#ll is "Mo" ???

The "American Invention" (retail computers NOT being provided with PHYSICAL MEDIA) is very likely the result that right around Win7, laptops didn't come with internal cd/dvd-rom drives. Why provide an installation DISC if the computer doesn't even have a way to read it, lol. Talking strictly corporate-distribution laptops. Thinner, lighter, no cd-rom drives. Heck, some of our company laptops of that time frame don't even have internal speakers!

I guess my definition differs slightly. All of my Dell computers (desktops and laptops) didn't come with physical media. HATE THAT! I want a disc! (Or a Rufus USB created from that disc.) They do come with a STICKER with my "license code" (or whatever it's technically called). Legal downloads are readily available (you cannot install without typing in the "license code"). I create my own physical media stemming from that sticker plus that download (where my installation is completely unattended). But I guess I still refer to that physical media as "RTM". Semantics. It's not "OEM" because I didn't download from DELL.

That's a dead link. Or my company blocks it and I just landed on IT's radar for clicking that link.

This isn't exactly his "home base". You and I post more in a DAY then he does in a YEAR. But maybe that just says something about you and I, lol.

This (to me at least) is "much ado about nothing". I'm seeing these as FALSE POSITIVES and a programmer that is FED UP with "explaining to the masses" that it is a FALSE POSITIVE. That's the PROBLEM with anti-virus "crap". You have to PAY MONEY to get your code APPROVED. Supermium/Thorium is FREE. How can a coder/programmer PAY to get code "approved" when the project generates no revenue? So the coder/programmer just throws his/her arms in the air and GIVES UP.

Additional investigation is required. I'm generally a bit skeptic on "virus" reports in general. I've seen more FALSE POSITIVES in my lifetime than I've ever seen for "real" positives. All of this is very suspicious. Thankfully (in my opinion), the "free pass" has been revoked. I'll take 25% credit for that, lol.

Fingers crossed that Thorium's GitHub at least stays up until I can download the latest. (edit: not even going to attempt to download here at work, lol, lest my PC be flagged on three continents' IT Depts) Trojan or not, I'd prefer to have them archived on my end. I can inoculate on my end ("maybe").

I'm not sure how those "take-downs" work. Did GitHub take it down? Or did "win32ss" take it down? Thorium's GitHub is still up. At the moment anyway.

Mileage will vary. But I have had some MV2 extensions migrate to MV3 and have EASILY downgraded back to MV2 just by overwriting my local MV2 with files from the newer MV3 and keeping the MV2 manifest format. But you do have to have your MV2 archived locally. MV2 or MV3, I myself *never* install directly from the Chrome Web Store.

I don't keep a running log, per se. I run each and every new release for about FOUR MINUTES and fully delete after those FOUR MINUTES. For me, it's because I compare directly to OFFICIAL UNGOOGLED and Thorium still makes some GOOGLE connections. Supermium CRASHES my system within NINETY SECONDS so from a stability standpoint alone, Thorium kicks Supermium's "arse". And from what I am seeing in the last 24hrs, BOTH are being flagged for "suspicious security vulnerabilities". I suppose it is the stability standpoint that has the Thorium thread so active here at MSFN but "nothing" on the Supermium thread - because it's too UNSTABLE for ANYBODY to actually USE.