Showing posts with label chrome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chrome. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Did you know - Chrome periodically scans your device to detect potentially unwanted software



“Nobody likes surprises,” Haroon Meer, the founder at security consulting firm Thinkst, told me in an online chat. “When people fear a big brother, and tech behemoths going too far...a browser touching files it has no business to touch is going to set off alarm bells.” 

According to Google, the goal of Chrome Cleanup Tool is to make sure malware doesn’t mess up with Chrome on your computer by installing dangerous extensions, or putting ads where they’re not supposed to be.

The tool only runs weekly, it only has normal user privileges (meaning it can’t go too deep into the system), is “sandboxed” (meaning its code is isolated from other programs), and users have to explicitly click on that box screenshotted above to remove the files and “cleanup.”


https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wj7x9w/google-chrome-scans-files-on-your-windows-computer-chrome-cleanup-tool

Friday, October 27, 2017

Patch...Patch...Patch is the simplest advise to protect against any Malware - Patch CHROME today



Google is urging users to update their Chrome desktop browsers to avoid security issues related to a high-severity stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability. Google issued the alert Thursday and said an update for most browsers has been released.

Google is not releasing any details surrounding this stack buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2017-15396) stating, “access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix.

For More:
https://threatpost.com/google-patches-high-severity-browser-bug/128661/