Monday, October 16, 2017

Google rolling out anti-virus feature for Chrome on Windows

The days of multiple browser toolbars in Firefox and Internet Explorer are (mostly) gone, but malicious browser extensions are still prevalent. In fact, you don't even have to venture outside of the Chrome Web Store to find a few. Today, Google announced that it is taking further steps to alert users about malicious extensions/setting changes.

The first of these changes quietly rolled out last month. Chrome now detects when any browser settings have been changed without user interaction, and will offer to revert the changes.

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Google rolling out anti-virus feature for Chrome on Windows was written by the awesome team at Android Police.



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