> No, it wasn't a virus. Chrome is spyware that can be used to browse the web (while advancing the agenda of the ad company that built it). Since spyware is l

> No, it wasn't a virus. Chrome is spyware that can be used to browse the web (while advancing the agenda of the ad company that built it). Since spyware is loosely classified as a virus, I would beg to differ with the headline. By the way, aside from all the "regular tracking" it does, did you know that the Chrome updater spawns programs with random names that write other programs with random names. Sounds like a virus? And just check out what it is doing to get you past a captcha... you can't. It is on a OS level, not a browser level, and everything about what it is doing is VERY obfuscated. Very virusy IMO?