
Defender tells me each time my system is clean with everything in the alert box turning green, but a few seconds later it gives me the alert again and if the green box is still open, it turns Red. Defender gives me 2 options, to clean or disinfect. In my Start Menu at that location at this time there is NO Google or Chrome file at all and I have never had Google in my start up. Another curious contradiction is that the alert's Resources category on the details page shows:Ĭ:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Google Chrome.lnk My Google search showed that is supposed to be Google.ink so maybe they are writing Ink with a capital I and their capital i is just a straight line and looks like their small l? IDKĪ full scan with both Bitdefender and then HouseCall to verify the results found no harmful files on my computer at all. However, the details page list the source as GoogleChrome.lnk same as the way it shows the blnk. I thought the blnk at the end of the file included a small letter l as in the word small because their letter l in Alert looks the same as the letter in bnlk and there is no capital I used anywhere in the Alert or on the details page that I can compare it to. I think they are both named - BrowserModifier:Win32/SubTab!blnk After closing IE, Windows Defender suddenly decided 2 files associated with Chrome were potentially harmful because QUOTE: "This program changes various Web browser settings without adequate consent." Those files both have the same name on the Defender Alert and I will explain why I am not certain how the ending is spelled. I assume the potentially harmful files have been on my computer for as long as I have used Chrome but today I opened Internet Explorer to check something and when it asked me if I wanted IE to be my primary browser I checked "No".



I think Windows Defender has decided a portion of Chrome is potentially harmful and unwanted software. My problem: I ran your scan because Windows Defender has an Alert on my comp that will not go away. I did LiveChat with Bitdefender about this and left the following message with HouseCall.
