Will installing Enhanced creat a problem?
"Enhanced Safe Browsing is a version of the Google Chrome web browser that provides alerts about potential malware, extensions that could pose a risk, phishing, or sites that are labeled as unsafe"
If it does not allow you to exempt certain locations from being scanned, or treat a download as safe e.g. the Logos folder, then don't install it.
I don't want Google intruding on my privacy, so I would not touch it.
Dave, thank you for your reply.
I appreciate your insight.
I will not install it.
Dave, I think what scooter may have been talking about is that Google has been rolling out ****promotions to use**** Enhanced Safe Browsing in the Google apps like Gmail, but it's been out quite awhile - spring 2020 sometime. I don't think there's anything new now, except Google that is pushing it in apps like Gmail, as users may not be aware of it. I have been using Enhanced Safe Browsing since almost the beginning, and I have never had a problem with Verbum/Mac due to it. I even just forced the download of 3-4 resources in Logos, just to ensure nothing new was sneaked in this week. All seems fine.
Originally it was an "Enhancement" (hence the name) of the traditional way to check for bad actors in web sites being visited - standard approach is checking the URL of sites visited against a local list that is downloaded/refreshed every 30 minutes. This list is widely used by many other apps and browsers, it's kinda the industry standard.
Google created Enhanced Safe Browsing because bad actors made their changes knowing the update period and working around it. Behind the scenes Google sends modified URLs in real time to determine whether the user is about to visit a phishing site. So this part is totally about the URL being visited, nothing to do with files, folders, or data on the client computer.
Now, Google did start to additionally perform in-depth file analysis in ESB, whatever that means, and ply their data/findings against their machine learning models to detect more phishing etc., to stay ahead of the bad guys. I guess this is the part that *could* impact the successful downloading etc. of Logos resources and data, but like I said I have never seen it in 3 years.
Last - it's not a download - it's a toggle on/off in the person's Google settings, So it's easy to turn it off if someone had a problem.
I suspect scooter saw a banner in gmail - it would have been suggesting to turn the toggle on. Now I could be wrong 😉
I suspect scooter saw a banner in gmail - it would have been suggesting to turn the toggle on
Don: This is what I saw.
