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Safe Browsing on Google Chrome adds real-time protection against malicious sites

Google says it has updated Chrome to offer better protection against malicious websites. With the Safe Browsing mode enabled, Chrome will check URLs in real-time without disclosing which sites you visit to Google's servers.

The Enhanced protection mode is opt-in, but Google found that these real-time checks offer "significant value," so it's bringing them to the standard version of Safe Browsing. The company notes that Safe Browsing is used on more than 5 billion devices and it helps protect against the likes of phishing, malware and unwanted software. Enhanced protection looks at additional factors and uses machine learning to identify risky sites that Safe Browsing hasn't yet confirmed as potentially malicious.

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