The message is real. I recall seeing it on a computer at home sometime
within the past month--however I don't recall whether it was on my wife's
Windows 7 or my Fedora box.
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On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, there. I am extremely super curious - "what warning?"
>>>
>>
>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/112648813199640203443/posts/7LrVTf43yz8
>> Akemi
>
>
> So far this is the one and only evidence of this supposed warning.
>
> Personally, I think that image is fake - the shown popup
> comes from the self-update function, but google-chrome installed
> from RPM through the google yum repo does not have the "self update"
> function (cannot have the self-update function - it runs as normal
> user, but self-update require root permissions).
>
> I am beating this dead horse because persons on this mailing list
> claim seeing some kind of warning, but when pressed, cannot
> provide any details, not even the version of google-chrome
> that produces the warning, refering me to this fishy g+ message instead.
>
>
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> Konstantin Olchanski
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