Google Safe Browsing has got better
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Good news on website security. Google says it will now warn users more often about visiting sites that may be dangerous.
These include sites infected with viruses, fake pages of organisations created to lure your personal data out of you, and sites distributing unwanted software.
The point is that Google has improved how its Safe Browsing technology works, and the Chrome browser will now identify such sites more successfully.
Unwanted software reaches websites in various ways, including through ad injectors that insert advertising into pages where there was none before. The advertising already placed on the page is replaced with other advertising, and the page itself is covered with adverts.
As a result of such pop-ups, more than 100 thousand complaints from Google Chrome users have been received since the start of 2015 alone. Google considers that such software causes problems for advertisers, publishers and end users alike.
The Safe Browsing technology is meant to protect users from having that software installed on their computers.
The technology works in the Firefox and Safari browsers and on different platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Android.
And we urge our customers to pay the closest attention to the question of security.