July 25 (Portaltic/EP) –
Google has redesigned alerts for potentially dangerous downloads in the Chrome browser to be more detailed and provide more information about the nature of the threat.
Following the update to the desktop downloads interface that Google introduced last year, it has now updated Chrome alerts to add more context to them, as reported in the Security blog.
The new alerts provide more detail about the nature of the threat detected in the download, so that users can understand it and act accordingly. These alerts have also been divided into two types: those that warn of suspicious files and those that report dangerous files.
Each new alert has its own iconography, color, and text, to make it easier to identify them based on the level of certainty with which the browser warns.
Additionally, Google has announced an automatic deep scan of some suspicious files within the ‘Enhanced Protection’ of Chrome’s ‘Safe Browsing’, as the experience based on the submission request has highlighted that this practice helps to better detect downloads with ‘malware’.
However, password-protected compressed files cannot be automatically scanned. This practice hides the malware from detection by Safe Browsing and other antivirus programs.
In order to be included in the suspicious file scan, Google will ask users with Enhanced Protection to enter the password and send it along with the file. If they have Standard Protection enabled – set by default – Chrome will also ask the user for the password and the file, which will be scanned on the device and only the metadata will be checked with Safe Browsing.
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