What is Chromium app? This showed up on my computer out of the blue.

[Parker Sims]

Is the sudden Chromium app or extension a good thing or a bad thing?

[Reilly Grant]

I suggesting asking over on the Google Chrome Help Forum. They're better at answering user questions as this list is for Chrome App developers and our answers will likely be very technical and hard to follow.

Chrome Apps and Extensions shouldn't appear unexpectedly. They must be installed by visiting the Chrome Web Store and clicking the "install" button. Installing things without your approval is a common malware technique. If you put chrome://extensions in your address bar you can see all the apps and extensions you have installed and remove any your don't remember installing.

If you mean that you suddenly have a "Chromium" app installed, when you expect to have "Google Chrome" this may mean that malware has replaced Chrome with an infected version of Chromium, the open source project Chrome is based on. If you put chrome://chrome in your address bar it should say "Google Chrome" and have a red, green and yellow logo. If it says "Chromium" and has a blue logo then your browser has been replaced.

I recommend checking out the help forums above and the malware removal instructions here: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2765944

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 8:56 AM Parker Sims <simspa...@gmail.com> wrote:

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On Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 11:56:33 AM UTC-4, Parker Sims wrote:

Is the sudden Chromium app or extension a good thing or a bad thing?

It Is Bad, Uninstall It Right Away! It Is Malware! 

[PhistucK]

​You are probably infected with some malware. :(

See this thread for at least removing that rogue Chromium -

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/chromium-discuss/chromium$20task$20manager/chromium-discuss/QS4wpaaQe8E/eo5veN5MjEcJ

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