That's interesting information. Upon reading your post I realized I hadn't, yet, downloaded an anti-malware software and had been using Chrome, pretty much exclusively, for the past 3-4 weeks (whenever my most recent post in this thread was). Prior to that I'd only had my laptop for a week or two and had used FF with ABP and NoScript, so I knew I was pretty well protected.
So, I installed AdAware Free and ran it just a couple hours ago. Sure enough I came up very clean. 6 cookies were found, but that was it. And I'm not all that careful about where I surf...no porn sites or anything terribly high risk, but still, I search for a lot of differnt things and do a lot of online shopping so there's at least moderate risk.
So that's pretty reassuring that Chrome is at least somewhat protective of that junk (at least not as porous as IE), plus I have to admit that it seems many times more stable than FF...and I'm a FF believer, but I've had only one or two browser crashes in the past 3 weeks or so and would have some sort of lock-up issue with FF every couple of days.
