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Chrome adds new warnings and cloud scanning for suspicious downloads
Chrome says users heed the new warnings more quickly.
By Wes Davis, a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. In response to widespread targeted cookie theft attacks on YouTube channels and other groups, like the Linus Tech Tips hacker takeover last year, Chrome has also added a prompt to scan encrypted archive files such as .zip files that have a password. Users will be prompted to enter the password so its AI system will open and scan them in the cloud for Enhanced protection users, while people with the default settings will have the files scanned locally using the currently available malware definitions.
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