This alert is just in from Jim Hamm: "If you use the Chrome browser occasionally (as I do), here is an article about carefully reading the 'permissions' question before completing the installation. I hadn't paid much attention to this previously, but will now, especially after reading the following quote in the article."
"Research scientists at Barracuda Networks recently discovered malicious extensions in the Chrome web store that fooled more than 90,000 users of the browser."