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Google extends Safe Browsing to Chrome downloads
The Chrome team are enhancing the implementation of their Safe Browsing API service --- an online database of known phishing sites and malware infected web pages that is hosted at Google --- to include downloaded files.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/04/06/google-extends-safe-browsing-to-chrome-downloads/
Note that Firefox 31 and Safari also query this database in real time to provide protection against the latest internet threats, so their users should benefit as well. ( http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/virus-spyware/f/3522/p/19592525/20658998.aspx#20658998 )
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August 15th, 2014 14:00
Has not IE provided equivalent protection for a few years now?
NSS Labs has declared IE as providing the best browser protection against socially engineered malware and phishing attacks in several tests over the past few years.
https://www.nsslabs.com/reports/browser-security-comparative-analysis-report-socially-engineered-malware
https://www.nsslabs.com/system/files/public-report/files/Browser%20Security%20Comparative%20Analysis%20-%20Socially%20Engineered%20Malware.pdf
Full disclosure: I do not allow any Google software - including its Chrome browser - on any of my computers.
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August 15th, 2014 18:00
IE's SmartScreen Filter certainly offers "analogous" (I would speculate "better") protection.
I posted this article, not because of Chrome, but because of the fact that Firefox --- which you and I both use at times --- accesses this particular Google-based protection.
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August 15th, 2014 19:00
Fair enough. I do like these browser wars, which only lead to better protection all around.