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Most of what I do these days is CDFR work (Completely Divorced From Reality)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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... is someone else confused by the behaviours of Google Chrome?
a.) Starting Chrome -> Something between 6 to 9 chrome.exe instances visible in task manager. This with _one_ open tab (ok, I recognize the 6 google apps which are basically available, but...)
b.) This very annoying software_reporter_tool.exe (also up to 9 processes started)
Why a web browser should scan my pc? Why I should trust them? I have traps installed, so no need (hopefully) for another tool against bad software...
Any thoughts?
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I see, sooner or later I have to accept, that my browser becomes my OS  ... 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Chrome: everything is in a separate process, so if a plug-in, extension, or web page render crashes, it doesn't take the rest down with it, and mostly that works pretty well - at least for me.
This may help: Why Does Chrome Have So Many Open Processes?[^]
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Thank you very much for your feedback.
Ok, yes. This with the plug-in extensions I can accept meanwhile, but this "software_reporter_tool.exe", still worries me. What do you think about it?
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
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0x01AA wrote: but this "software_reporter_tool.exe", still worries me.
It should.
It's a google tool that targets and kills advertisements, plug-ins, and even programs that google either doesn't get paid for, or doesn't like -- and, of course, it reports everything back to google.
AIRI, deleting the tool doesn't help (it's in either the local or roaming appdata directory for chrome), because google just replaces it, the next time you run chrome, so you have to remove inheritance from its containing directory, so that it can't be called by chrome.
Do an internet search for exact details, then kill that "do no evil" cootie.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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 Thank you for your feedback! Yes, I googled it already before my post here. I see a chance to disable it by policies. But for me more important is, it is a no go that a browser software hooks that aggresive into my system.
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
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I suggest: Settings->Advanced->Cleanup computer->Find harmful software
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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 Settings of W10 or Chrome or what? And btw. I feel very safe with the tool (traps) installed by my company IT. I don't think a "spy" tool like "software_reporter_tool.exe" is needed/would be helpfull.
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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On Chrome, they have a built in tool for removing harmful stuff.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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I think this is this "software_reporter_tool.exe" which I prefer to disable, if possible.
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
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Btw. just let it run ...
... the result:
Quote: Error in the search
An error occurred while searching Chrome for malicious software
notething less and nothing more. A most probably useless tool
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
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u can just go to the folder and delete..check on google for solution
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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0x01AA wrote: Why a web browser should scan my pc?
Did you forget who wrote this browser? And what their goals are?
That should be enough to provide you with the answers you're looking for.
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You are most probably tooooo right
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
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probably?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Google has never hidden the fact that the only reason they have a browser at all is so they have an easier time tracking everything you do.
It only makes sense that they'd be running an external tool to also probe the rest of your system. And let me guess - this scanner runs with admin rights...
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0x01AA wrote: Why a web browser should scan my pc?
I vaguely remember something about security team find chrome was scanning last year. Thought is was about gather intel of computer setup, but this article is saying it is a anti-malware for chrome targeted hacks. Which "sounds" nice as maybe desktop anti-virus/malware not updated as often as chrome browser.
Google Chrome is Quietly Scanning Your Files | Restore Privacy
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Thank you
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
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0x01AA wrote: I see, sooner or later I have to accept, that my browser becomes my OS ...
I've been hearing that nonsense for over 10 years.
I still don't see anyone starting VS or WarCraft in a browser. I've seen no database-server that runs in a browser. I have not seen a single device-driver for a browser.
It's similar to the cloud and IoT-craze. It's nonsense without argumentation.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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With the right plugins, Visual Studio Code is nearly there in terms of being an IDE.
Warcraft in the browser would be easily doable with WebGL, and since Unity offers an HTML5 compile target, game developers wouldn't even need to do any special work to make an in-browser version of their game available.
All of the browsers have indexedDB built in, now. People have compiled SQLite to WebAssembly to make it run in the browser. It's not a database server, I know. But I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen in the near future.
The browser doesn't literally need to be an OS to effectively serve as someone's operating system. For a lot of people I know, everything they need to do in the course of a work day can be accomplished through a browser. Effectively, the web is their OS and the browser is the client via which they access it.
As a developer, I used to think it would never be possible to do all of my work via a browser. But then I see things like StackBlitz. Sure, that's only useful for certain types of dev work. Right now, anyway. I'm interested to see where all of this goes in the future.
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Ryan Peden wrote: Warcraft in the browser would be easily doable with WebGL, and since Unity offers an HTML5 compile target, game developers wouldn't even need to do any special work to make an in-browser version of their game available.
While graphics are available, a browser does (still) not allow multiple threads, and as such, is rather very limited in processing. Meaning a game that requires a lot of communication and immediate feedback will not be running in a browser.
Ryan Peden wrote: All of the browsers have indexedDB built in, now. People have compiled SQLite to WebAssembly to make it run in the browser. It's not a database server, I know. But I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen in the near future.
A database-server in a browser doesn't even make sense
Ryan Peden wrote: The browser doesn't literally need to be an OS to effectively serve as someone's operating system.
If it doesn't, it is not an OS; it is literally just your worksurface, and while most people do not need more than what is running in their browser, their worksurface is not going to replace any OS any time soon. It's a bit simplistic to do as if they are interchangeable.
Ryan Peden wrote: Effectively, the web is their OS and the browser is the client via which they access it.
No, it isn't; they still need an OS to run their browser, they still need an OS to control attached devices.
To give you an analogy; if you only use Calc.exe on Win95, you still can't claim that Calc.exe is your OS.
Ryan Peden wrote: As a developer, I used to think it would never be possible to do all of my work via a browser. But then I see things like StackBlitz. Sure, that's only useful for certain types of dev work. Right now, anyway. I'm interested to see where all of this goes in the future.
Next to being possible, there's also the question on whether it is desirable
In the future, security will become more of an issue, and lare parts of the internet may become temporarily unavailable. Call it exciting times.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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A database server in a web browser doesn't have to make sense for people to try to do it! 
I think we mostly agree. A browser isn't an OS, I just meant that some people can treat it like their OS because they never need to do anything outside of it.
Multiple threads are kind of available to web apps via web workers, though in practice it works more like starting multiple processes and passing messages between them. WebAssembly will end up with multithreading support sooner or later, which will be interesting.
I don't think it's even fair to call browsers 'browsers' anymore. They're more like a complex system of interlocking parts that just happen to have a web page renderer attached. If you load a URL and all it does it download a wasm binary blob and a bunch of graphics assets to run a game, you're not really browsing the web in any meaningful sense. Maybe we need a better name than 'web browser' to describe it, but attempts to think of a better name have thus far come up blank. 
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Ryan Peden wrote: I just meant that some people can treat it like their OS because they never need to do anything outside of it.
People can treat their smartphone like a computer, because they do not need anything outside of it. Still, I don't see me launch Visual Studio on my smartphone.
Ryan Peden wrote: Multiple threads are kind of available to web apps via web workers, though in practice it works more like starting multiple processes and passing messages between them. WebAssembly will end up with multithreading support sooner or later, which will be interesting.
The browser will always have to share resources with other applications and services running, limiting its resources.
Ryan Peden wrote: I don't think it's even fair to call browsers 'browsers' anymore. They're more like a complex system of interlocking parts that just happen to have a web page renderer attached. If you load a URL and all it does it download a wasm binary blob and a bunch of graphics assets to run a game, you're not really browsing the web in any meaningful sense.
You are still downloading content from a (trusted) server and rendering that in a specialized application that runs in a limited environment (because the content cannot be trusted to touch anything outside the browser, like a local HD).
If trust goes down, people may switch to some other application that renders a UI on a client.
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Corrected some spelling errors.
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MSBassSinger wrote: It does with WebAssembly.
Does it?
Documentation of said github wrote: An agent is the execution context for a WebAssembly module. For the web embedding, it is an ECMAScript agent. It is further extended to include a WebAssembly stack and evaluation context.
An agent is sometimes called a thread, as it is meant to match the behavior of the general computing concept of threads.
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