What is this warning/error message box that keeps popping up even when Chrome is not open on my Mac?

Yes, I get this recurrently – it is very persistent and difficult to dismiss. In my case I have never had Chrome installed on any of my computers.

I've done some perusing elsewhere on this forum and came across an idea. As I've stated – I have never had google chrome on any of my machines but a couple of years ago I did try google earth for a while then attempted to delete it. Some process wants to open a chrome extension. What process would want that – perhaps some remnant of google earth?

I went to:

/Library/LaunchAgents

/Library/LaunchDaemons

~/Library/LaunchAgents

There I found several files with google in the name that have no business being there and deleted them. Hopefully this does the trick!

so did this solve the problem?

No unfortunately – it still occurs but perhaps less frequently – every couple of weeks or so.

So my previous idea does not cure it. I did come across another potential clue. According to this article

some other malicious code may be trying to use chrome extensions for nefarious reasons. The question remains: From where is it acting? To what ends? How to find and neutralise it?

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I'm getting this error - out of the blue a few months back. No Google Earth but have/had Chrome. Restart in safe mode seemed to fix it for a while, now it is back. Often screen full of error boxes when I return to it after it has been sat doing nothing. 2019 iMac. Did anyone get anywhere with it? It is driving me mad!