My norton internet security was about to expire. Yesterday I purchased & installed Norton Security. The first full scan found a virus that had never been found by NIS or by Power Eraser which being a safety fanatic I've run periodically.
The virus was reported as SAPE.Heur.960 on chromesetup.exe -- I run a Vista machine so it never had Chrome on it originally, I always used IE but there was a problem with IE last spring & was advised NOT to use it until the problem was fixed. I downloaded this file from the official google site in April 2014. I installed Chrome using this file. IE has been fixed now -- but I find that I use Chrome more because it loads faster...
Is this new finding of a virus on that downloaded setup file a false positive?? How would I know that? AND if it isn't a false positive does that make my Chrome installation dangerous? AND if so, why didn't it find any subsequent problem within the Chrome installation itself?
Thanks for your input.... I'm very confused.