How are others dealing with this?
It's interesting for sure. As I mentioned in the other thread I do see both sides regarding this topic. Security softs need some hooks to provide protection, Google, hooks cause problems and instability. From reading some of the articles, one of the big issues I see is that apparently Chrome can't actually tell which program caused the crash, instead it looks for some reg keys and if it sees any of those specific keys it will just flag it as the offending program, even if it wasn't what caused the crash.
I think everyone will be divided into two groups when it comes to dealing with this:
Group A will follow Google's recommendation and remove their security product.
Group B will ditch Chrome, keep their security program(s) and switch to another browser. Especially if they paid for it, as Chrome is free.
Is there a right way or a wrong way to deal with this? I don't know, I think it may come down to whether you want to keep Chrome or your security software? Hopefully Google and the security companies just work together to make this work for everyone, which would just make it a moot point.
Google has been subtly mounting an anti anti-virus campaign for years now. I'm convinced they want total say over all software legitimacy.
I too have noticed this. Google for a while now has slowly, but surely been campaigning against 3rd party AV/AM and getting people to use the built in products within Windows as it causes less issues. They aren't entirely wrong, Windows Defender has come a long ways and they (so far anyways) keep improving it with every major release, it's built in and uses the proper mechanisms without causes too many issues. Is it perfect? No, but it does a fairly decent job. I think if it wasn't for the performance hit that some people notice on their systems, it would be adopted even more so.
