We are always looking for ways to help protect people better from the constant threat of malicious software. For years Firefox has utilized Google’s Safe Browsing phishing and malware protection to help keep you from accidentally visiting dangerous sites. This protection feature works by checking the sites that you visit against lists that Firefox downloads of reported phishing and malware sites. (For more details,
check out this page.)
Firefox is about to get safer.
Until recently, we only had access to lists of reported malicious
web sites, now the Safe Browsing service
monitors malicious downloaded files too. The latest version of Firefox (as of July 22) will protect you from more malware by comparing files you download against these lists of malicious files, and blocking them from infecting your system.
