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Google Chrome for Windows Gets Basic Antivirus Features (betanews.com)
Google is rolling out a trio of important changes to Chrome for Windows users. From a report: At the heart of these changes is Chrome Cleanup. This feature detects unwanted software that might be bundled with downloads, and provides help with removing it. Google's Philippe Rivard explains that Chrome now has built-in hijack detection which should be able to detect when user settings are changes without consent. This is a setting that has already rolled out to users, and Google says that millions of users have already been protected against unwanted setting changes such as having their search engine altered. But it's the Chrome Cleanup tool that Google is particularly keen to highlight. A redesigned interface makes it easier to use and to see what unwanted software has been detected and singled out for removal.
Is this functionality going to be included in Firefox, too?
We are now witnessing feature creep as more features are being crammed into Chrome.
Google should style up and "fix" their current software, most of which suffers from usability issues and/or crappy implementation.
As a start: How about implementing basic sorting of video from photos [or having some kind of sensible filter] in their Google Photos offering?
pull a 'microsoft' and remove legit software that GOOGLE doesn't WANT you to have?
What a clever way to scan every piece of software you download to your PC and data collect what you're downloading.
I'm sure they wouldn't use it to search for pirated software or movies...
I'm sure they do stop your search engine settings from being changed. Even when you wanted the change...
How about something like this for Android? Then I could remove all the shit that Google put there that I have zero intention of using, ever.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
to snoop you with, my dear...
There is no XUL, only WebExtensions...
Won't help if I redirect you to a location not bearing a DNS name at all (i.e. a simple IP address), nor will it help if malware is hosted on a trusted domain. Works for many, many other use cases though, so don't write off /etc/hosts as part of a holistic approach to network security.
Microsoft Edge Beats Chrome and Firefox in Malware-Blocking Tests
https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/10/15/017215/microsoft-edge-beats-chrome-and-firefox-in-malware-blocking-tests
And we are surprised that within a day, Google starts malware blocking?
That is for evil. Not for this don't be evil. I am so confused.
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If Google, or government to which they have to answer, wants something to go away, Google will just make Chrome label it as a virus.
Spyware masquerading as protection-ware. This won't end well.
Since Windows 10 is the new spyware does it detect and delete it ? :-)
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So now we have Chrome browser for dummies. I certainly see Chrome becoming bloated with all these features. Not saying it has significantly slowed the browser yet. But I am seeing a pattern of bloat that will eventually lead to problem. Also, what happens to false positives with this feature? Can you override or just turn it off?
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"Google adds the ability for it to scan all the files you download using its browser."
A good 99++% of malware uses hostnames (vs. IP addresses that are TOO EZ for ICANN/IANA etc. to "sinkhole" is why). Firewalls do the rest (as in the case of Windows native firewall NOT doing host-domain names OR application level blocking (some firewalls do but THEN you have the added overheads their MANY PARTS INTRODUCE such as usermode slower service &/or filtering layered drivers THAT HOSTS DO NOT INTRODUCE by using what you natively have already).
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I prevent almost all of these issues by simply not using Windows. Then a good /etc/hosts file and a good browser ad-blocker and several anti-tracking add-ons and a strong default-deny firewall for good measure.
Now Chrome can detect that the installer for Adobe Acrobat Reader includes an installation of Chrome. Isn't this one ironic?
I follow a couple pod casts whose files Chrome will not allow me to download. It flags the source site, purhaps correctly, but gives no option to override it's restriction . I have to use a download tool, another browser, or wget command line.
Putting in new features might well make Chrome *less* useful.
A good 99++% of malware uses hostnames (vs. IP addresses that are TOO EZ for ICANN/IANA etc. to "sinkhole" is why). Firewalls do the rest (as in the case of Windows native firewall NOT doing host-domain names OR application level blocking (some firewalls do but THEN you have the added overheads their MANY PARTS INTRODUCE such as usermode slower service &/or filtering layered drivers THAT HOSTS DO NOT INTRODUCE by using what you natively have already)!
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P.S.=> Someone said this one day here about hosts (I have it bookmarked but it takes time for me to look) calling hosts a "shotgun approach" (meaning it does the job on MANY levels) but I say it's GREAT @ BLOWING AWAY MALWARE (before you can touch it & be infected) like a shotgun, lol... apk
This would be better emacs
You thought Joogle was going to allow you to listen that alt-right hate speech unopposed? Silly Kekistani...
Antifa will be showing up at your house any minute.
What if I'm trying to download harmful stuff on purpose? If they put the 'fix' behind some backasswards tab in the developer tool panel just they made us all play Find The Certificate, it's full time Opera for me. Which I actually would not mind. The 'chromaddons' addon allows pretty much the entire chrome store extensions to work in Opera (even some weird ones).
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now I am waiting for emacs facial recognition.
Frequently Chrome gets bogged down with some javascript that is running amok so I'd rather they focused on making that better. Even when it's instances where I may want javascript to get more resources I should be able to control that. They could do it like if a page hits the point of consuming more than X CPU, you get asked whether you want to close it, pause it, etc and there should be different thresholds for foreground vs background tabs
Oddly it is the employees who install Chrome (as users) in our organization that get flagged with PUP applications trying to run...these get right past Chrome and get neutered by MalwareBytes...