Google Takes Safe Browsing to the Next Level

14 years ago

Google Takes Safe Browsing to the Next Level

Malware isn’t an alien term anymore. In almost every session of computer usage, one comes across several malicious websites. Through their authored concept of Safe Browsing API, Google has attempted to reduce system infections, the majority of which happen because of drive-by downloads. Despite safe browsing being held as the best thing to have happened to internet security issues, we couldn’t agree more on how much vulnerable we still are to malware, mostly for the reason that malware catches us unaware. Safe Browsing API has with it a list of URL of websites that it terms ‘malicious’.

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