Google - Safe Browsing

Posted by admin on January 10, 2009

As Internet has a wide selection of fishes in the sea you should be able to realize than some of them are ” piranhas ” looking to harm your computer, studying the google site index looking for news I came along a site which thankfully Google told me better to get out before I do enter.

Copyright by Google

Well obviously I didn ´t enter the site, but I do imagine this tool is pretty helpful for anyone to be sure about visiting a site or not, chek is quiet simple just ad, to this link the site.

Example:

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=

To check add after ” = ” the site url, means:

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://whateversiteyouliketocheck.com

This are manually checks, for Firefox there is an add on include on the Google Toolbar for Firefox, more information can be found here:

http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/safebrowsing/faq.html

General Information ” Api ”

http://code.google.com/apis/safebrowsing/

In their own words:

“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. ”