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Friday, February 5, 2016

Chrome will recognize soon the false and misleading download buttons

Google has announced that it is taking steps to make the user experience on the web safer and "specious". Through a new blog post we discover that the company is introducing a new feature of Chrome that allows you to identify, through the Safe Browsing option, those Web sites that use "misleading download keys", or other banner ads that drive to make actions not expected by the user.

                                                         These buttons are false, do not click!


With the new changes announced by the company, the Safe Browsing feature will be able to analyze the contents integrated into the page you are trying to do one of the following actions:

Pretending to act or look like they are a trusted entity, such as messages from the device, your browser, or from the site itself.
Try to trick you by pushing it to take an action that in fact only would perform against an entity trusted, such as sharing a password or a call to technical support.
Safe Browsing is enabled by default on the Google browser and news are hooked to the last significant update that had been published during the past month of November, which we introduced options similar to the so called "social engineering." With the new update when the user logs on to a Web site that contains these elements deemed deceptive you will be greeted by a full-screen message that warns of the possibility of incurring fraudulent content.


Google declares open war in November against what it calls "social engineering." The company reiterates its will to come up against this phenomenon with new even more specific, in an effort to make the web a safer place for new users or navigated: "Our battle against unwanted software and social engineering is only just beginning "He wrote Lucas Ballard of the Safe Browsing team of Google. "We will continue to improve the protection Safe Browsing to help more people to navigate safely".

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