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I'm not saying it's great news, but I really can see where they're coming from for this.

Note that they're only doing this for Windows. As someone who occasionally is roped in to providing tech support for a sibling who keeps installing malware - someone who is going to fall for those repackaged versions of VLC, or one of those 'your computer has viruses, click here to install Super Security 3000' or whatever* - I can tell you that malware for Chrome along the lines of browser toolbars and ad injectors are real and out there in the wild and being installed automatically by these kinds of things.

The computer has Norton Internet Security, of course. Which does sweet FA as far as I can tell.

* Note to self: Install AdBlock on that computer.