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by rwhitman 3510 days ago
OMG, that's what I thought too! But no, no, no. Chrome became her BIGGEST vector for malware! She was installing Chrome plugins, and they in turn installed a modded copy of Chromium with all kinds of toolbars and spyware, which set itself as the default. Chrome became a total disaster, worse than IE ever was. I think recent security patches have helped a bit though
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Wow. This kind of thing is not particularly easy to google for - know anywhere I might be able to find out more about this?
I see this all the time with client's computers that I must clean.
Huh.

I never really thought of the practical ramifications of a fully open-source browser...

Although now I'm wondering what API keys they compiled Chromium with. :v