Google will be pumping out some new security measures within the next week that will label applications that attempt to bypass the silent installation blockers as malware.


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Moheeb Abu Rajab wrote in a blog that to protect you while browsing the web, we recently added new measures to protect you and your computer. These measures will identify software that violates Chrome’s standard mechanisms for deploying extensions, flagging such binaries as malware. Within a week, you will start seeing Safe Browsing malicious download warnings when attempting to download malware identified by this criteria.

These measures will also result in a noticeable improvement in performance in Chrome, and also for the user.

PCMag notes that last December silent extension installations were disabled by default starting with Chrome version 25, and that this has protected users from unauthorized malware installations. The additional security will further expand those capabilities to further detect and block the types of malware described above.