Comments on: An Easy way to Browse the Internet Faster than Ever http://www.fosterinstitute.com/blog/browse-the-internet/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:50:39 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jim Mercer http://www.fosterinstitute.com/blog/browse-the-internet/#comment-12717 Jim Mercer Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:23:33 +0000 http://www.fosterinstitute.com/blog/?p=214#comment-12717 I've tried Chrome in an isolated VM XP environment, and yes, it's fast. And yes - it's supposedly got some really nifty security architecture in it. However... Chrome is installed in a user-writable directory, and is set so that it will automatically accept updates. (In fact, you have to agree to that before you install it.) This makes the executables quite vulnerable to attack - since they can be changed under the users login rights. The potential for exploiting this opening is enormous, and if Chrome becomes popular... I suspect we'll see all sorts of nasty stuff aimed at doing exactly that. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2347216,00.asp See above for more details. I’ve tried Chrome in an isolated VM XP environment, and yes, it’s fast. And yes – it’s supposedly got some really nifty security architecture in it. However… Chrome is installed in a user-writable directory, and is set so that it will automatically accept updates. (In fact, you have to agree to that before you install it.) This makes the executables quite vulnerable to attack – since they can be changed under the users login rights.

The potential for exploiting this opening is enormous, and if Chrome becomes popular… I suspect we’ll see all sorts of nasty stuff aimed at doing exactly that.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2347216,00.asp

See above for more details.

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