The claim about HTTPS not being sufficient for downloading Chrome (or anything else) is incorrect. The page cites https://cryptostorm.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=8

The claim about HTTPS not being sufficient for downloading Chrome (or anything else) is incorrect. The page cites https://cryptostorm.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=8713 https://cryptostorm.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=8713 for this, but that's a long page of nonsense. Most likely what's happening is that HTTP resource loads are being manipulated; thus it appears to affect all browsers. Also possible is that the end-machine has been compromised some other way and the malware is attacking local programs. As far as a user is concerned, the difference is irrelevant, but we'll never get a grip on problems if even technical pages are fear mongering.