Does the Safe Browsing feature of the Toolbar protect me from viruses or scumware?
Google Safe Browsing only protects against phishing attacks, and even for those it can't offer foolproof protection (although we're working on it). You still need to watch out for all the other bad things that can happen on the wild, wild web.
What is the Enhanced Protection feature of Google Safe Browsing?
When you enable Enhanced Protection, the Google Safe Browsing feature of the Toolbar for Firefox will provide more up-to date protection by securely transmitting the entire URL of the site that you're visiting to Google for evaluation.
In addition, a very condensed version of the page's content may be sent to compare similarities between authentic and forged pages. For example, if the condensed "fingerprint" of the page you're visiting matches the "fingerprint" of a popular bank's site but the page's URL is different, that's a good sign that the page you are on is designed to mislead users.
If you disable Enhanced Protection, no information about the pages you visit will be sent to Google unless you visit a page Google Safe Browsing identifies as potentially unsafe. In this case, we will only send the action you choose to take to help refine our anti-phishing algorithms. Please note that enabling Enhanced Protection gives the Google Safe Browsing feature access to the most up-to-date fraud information about each page you visit.
Google Safe Browsing only protects against phishing attacks, and even for those it can't offer foolproof protection (although we're working on it). You still need to watch out for all the other bad things that can happen on the wild, wild web.
What is the Enhanced Protection feature of Google Safe Browsing?
When you enable Enhanced Protection, the Google Safe Browsing feature of the Toolbar for Firefox will provide more up-to date protection by securely transmitting the entire URL of the site that you're visiting to Google for evaluation.
In addition, a very condensed version of the page's content may be sent to compare similarities between authentic and forged pages. For example, if the condensed "fingerprint" of the page you're visiting matches the "fingerprint" of a popular bank's site but the page's URL is different, that's a good sign that the page you are on is designed to mislead users.
If you disable Enhanced Protection, no information about the pages you visit will be sent to Google unless you visit a page Google Safe Browsing identifies as potentially unsafe. In this case, we will only send the action you choose to take to help refine our anti-phishing algorithms. Please note that enabling Enhanced Protection gives the Google Safe Browsing feature access to the most up-to-date fraud information about each page you visit.
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