The chromebook OS can not be hacked because of the way it works. First since there is no hard drive there is no place for a virus to stay. Whenever you turn on a chromebook, the first thing the OS does is to do a scan to see if the OS you have is the one they left you with. If not, then they restore you to the last good one and download a new one -- all in the background, you don't even know it is happening.
If you go to a site that grabs your screen (which has nothing to do with the OS), all you have to do is push the shutoff button and when you turn it back on you are safe again.
When the PC was first invented, it was never intended to be on the web, it was never intended to keep out viruses (since they weren't invented yet).
Linux was designed to be secure from day one (chromebook OS is a version of Linux).
Someone has to get a virus before someone can create an antivirus for it. Since the chromebook can't get a virus, it's not a problem.
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