Chrome and Chromium are 2 different things.
Chrome is a legitimate browser, and Chromium, and all it's little little add-ons are malware-browser products. Chrominio message center was citing a new upgrade in Chromium.
She got Chromium and it's garbage by installing something else and not noticing that they were installing Chromium at the same time. It's sucking down her computer memory when it runs, and it never stops running.
When I got it, it wasn't easy to get rid of, and I even tried setting my computer back to a former restore point.