{"id":35875,"date":"2019-03-07T15:13:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35875"},"modified":"2019-03-07T15:13:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:13:17","slug":"psa-stop-what-youre-doing-and-update-google-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/07\/psa-stop-what-youre-doing-and-update-google-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA: Stop What You&#8217;re Doing and Update Google Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Warning_Siren-Light_Bar_OPT.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35876\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Warning_Siren-Light_Bar_OPT.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you use Google Chrome browser, you would be well-advised to update it &#8230; RIGHT NOW!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Google is urging Chrome users to update the web browser right away to patch a zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a Tuesday tweet, Google Chrome Security and Desktop Engineering Lead Justin Schuh said users should install the latest version of the browser\u201472.0.3626.121\u2014right away.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Seriously, update your Chrome installs&#8230; like right this minute,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinschuh\/status\/1103087046661267456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/367015\/stop-what-youre-doing-and-update-google-chrome\"><em><strong>SOURCE LINK: PC Magazine<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Also, seriously, update your Chrome installs&#8230; like right this minute. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PSA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Justin Schuh \ud83d\uddd1 (@justinschuh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinschuh\/status\/1103087046661267456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s possible to disable Chrome&#8217;s Auto Update, it&#8217;s not easy.<\/p>\n<p>However, for Updates to take effect, you have to relaunch the browser.<\/p>\n<p>What your goal is to end up w\/ Version 72.0.3626.121<\/p>\n<p>To check to see that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re running, click on the 3 Vertical Dots in the upper right-hand corner.\u00a0 Then from the drop-down menu it generates, click &#8220;Help&#8221;.\u00a0 Then from the next menu click &#8220;About Google Chrome&#8221;.\u00a0 And you should get a window that looks something like this (this is mine):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PSA_Google-Chrome_Update_Version.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-35877\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PSA_Google-Chrome_Update_Version-1024x723.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PSA_Google-Chrome_Update_Version-1024x723.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PSA_Google-Chrome_Update_Version-150x106.png 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PSA_Google-Chrome_Update_Version-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PSA_Google-Chrome_Update_Version-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PSA_Google-Chrome_Update_Version.png 1284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use Google Chrome browser, you would be well-advised to update it &#8230; RIGHT NOW! Google is urging Chrome users to update the web browser right away to patch a zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited. In a Tuesday tweet, Google Chrome Security and Desktop Engineering Lead Justin Schuh said users should install <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/07\/psa-stop-what-youre-doing-and-update-google-chrome\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}