[Athen] what is safe browsing bloom

[Harris,John Paul]

This is an interesting issue.

Safe Browsing Bloom filter is used by the Google Chrome web browser.  Chrome uses to identify malicious websites.  The technique is capable of identifying up to 1 million malicious websites.  So, you should feel safe as you are protected against ~0.2% of malicious websites on the web.

As I searched the topic online I saw a lot of people trying to remove the Bloom filters with no success.  Most people do not know what it is and do not want it.

This is what I was capable of finding on the issue this morning.

JP

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Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 12:48 PM
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Subject: [Athen] what is safe browsing bloom

Over the past year I have had 2 items pop up on my desktop
safe browsing bloom
safe browsing bloom filter

I deleted them a couple times with no idea of what they were or how they got on my desktop.
They just popped up again.
Does anyone know what they are?
Is it malware or what?
How might I have got them?




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