Google Chrome-Protecting users from malicious downloads

Google has introduced a new feature for its Chrome browser that will display a warning if a user attempts to download a suspected malicious executable file.

The Chrome team are enhancing the implementation of their Safe Browsing API service to include downloaded files.

What is the Safe Browsing API?
The Safe Browsing API is an experimental API that enables client applications to check URLs against Google’s constantly updated blacklists of suspected phishing and malware pages. Your client application can use the API to download an encrypted table for local, client-side lookups of URLs that you would like to check.

The new feature will be integrated with Google Chrome and will display a warning if a user attempts to download a suspected malicious executable file:

This warning will be displayed for any download URL that matches the latest list of malicious websites published by the Safe Browsing API. By adding support for these known malware destinations they will reduce the number of infections for users using Chrome.