Seems Google themselves are becoming outlaws, breaking the standard Windows install methods and policies, instead installing SOFTWARE, EXE and DLL files into user profiles!
Very bad and sneaky, IMO. That's what rogue and phony AV apps do, and that's the tricks the BAD GUYS use.
When it comes down to a once trusted vendor using such tactics to get into corporate and GOVERNMENT doors, then it's time to block their browser and probably anything Google, IMO.
No folder can be created under %userprofile% named GOOGLE, and no file can exist with such a name in it.
Thank you SEP.
IMO, what google is doing is plain unethical and I've love to tell their CEO, how dare they work to get around corporate and agency policies against installing software that isn't approved or standard by using such trickery.
This is one of the bits from my app and device control policy, preventing files from being created here:
%userprofile%\local settings\application data\google\chrome
There can be no Program Files\Google folder, no folder named Chrome in Program files or the profile area.
This actually dates back to when their desktop search toolbar someone had somehow installed here hammered on some other state domain controllers, and then when I saw them attempting to sneek application installations into the profile area, that was enough.
It's a browser with somewhat of a not so smooth history in the security area anyway so it was a browser we didn't need.