Chromium

[Leader-of-hungary]

I was recently downloading cheat engine and because i thought would be useful so i do as normally. i had noticed i had gotten some malware and used malwarebytes clean it up and i get rid of everything but chromium wouldn't go away so i look up how to use it and i saw a video that looked straight and easy to do that didn't work. i got ride of all the files i could.

 

I am running windows 7 

[ZacoAttaco]

Can you give us any more details? Chromium itself is not actually malware, it's a open-source browser similar to Chrome. Does Malwarebytes indicate it's still malicious?

 

From the research I did online, you can either download the chromium installer online, run it and then select Uninstall.

 

Another way is to go into, ProgramFiles, delete Chromium folder, ProgramFiles(x86), delete Chromium folder, Run>%AppData%, delete Chromium folder, Run>%LocalAppData%, delete Chromium folder and finally delete any shortcuts.

 

Essentially you're deleting any folder than contains anything related to the Chromium program. I found this information from SuperUser, hope it works.

[Fasauceome]

4 minutes ago, ZacoAttaco said:

Can you give us any more details? Chromium itself is not actually malware, it's a open-source browser similar to Chrome. Does Malwarebytes indicate it's still malicious?

 

Not only is chromium like Google chrome, chrome is literally built off of chromium. I believe it's auto downloaded when you get chrome, and also Malwarebytes is kinda crap, don't trust it fully.

[NobodyKnows]

When I installed CE a while ago it also installed Chromium and Avast. Just uninstall them like regular programs first and remove the rest of the files they leave behind. I had to go and remove some of it from the registry because even though Chromium was gone, it was still appearing in the task manager in startup programs. 

[JoostinOnline]

10 hours ago, fasauceome said:

Not only is chromium like Google chrome, chrome is literally built off of chromium. I believe it's auto downloaded when you get chrome, and also Malwarebytes is kinda crap, don't trust it fully.

Chromium can be malware.  One that's damn near impossible to remove.  It replicates.