Google Chrome now warns about nefarious sites

Are you worried about the site you may want to look at? Google Chrome is going to warn you before you visit a site that encourages you to download nefarious programs that make undesirable changes to your computer or interfere with your online experience.

If you are about to visit one of these sites, you will see a red warning message> "The site ahead contains harmful programs."



"We're constantly working to keep people safe across the Web," Google Software Engineer Lucas Ballard wrote in a blog post Monday.

The new protections come after last week's discovery that new Lenovo PCs shipped between September and December came pre-installed with adware known as Superfish, which uses a man-in-the-middle attack to insert ads into Web browsers. Not surprisingly, the controversy has resulted in a lawsuit.

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