Google Chrome Update message keeps popping up

Yeah. We’re on Brave. Why would it be telling us Chrome is out of date and to update it? This appears just because Brave reports the User Agent as Chrome. So this is a giveaway that it’s not anything legitimate. But there are many variations of the same which is just virus, malware, or complete scam.

Someone else shared a similar from Vivaldi: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArcBrowser/comments/1r8wxep/whats_that/

Can see discussion of this from 2024/2025 at https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1fh2m5v/is_this_chrome_malware_attempt/ even where some talked about how it resulted in them losing money.

Bank warning people about similar at https://midpennbank.com/fake-web-browser-update-dont-get-tricked-by-this-ghoul/

Old post about it here on Brave Community via Being warned to update Chrome (using the latest Brave) with link to trojan - #2 by BA76 though the link in that message is no longer valid

Other one is like ChromeActions which is fake. It gets crazy how much stuff is out there.

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