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Google’s Safe Browsing protection in Chrome goes real-time

Earlier, Chrome downloaded a list of known sites that harbour malware, unwanted software and phishing scams once or twice per hour. Now, Chrome will move to a system that will send the URLs you are visiting to its servers and check against a rapidly updated list there. The advantage of this is that it doesn’t take up to an hour to get an updated list because, as Google notes, the average malicious site doesn’t exist for more than 10 minutes.