Check URLs in Chrome against a list of sites that are not safe.Īs you have seen, disabling Chrome’s protection in some cases is very useful in case it detects a file with malware that is not really malware (false positive), however, once the download is finished, our recommendation is that you activate this again protection again, for added security.

On the other hand, the standard protection is simpler, it protects us against dangerous downloads, extensions and websites.

It improves our security and that of the users of the web.

Send URLs to safe browsing for you to check.

Notify if our passwords are exposed by a security breach.

In this case, it is the ideal one, especially if you have your Google account synchronized in the browser since it offers us additional improvements such as:

Also, you need to send browsing data to Google.

Regardless of what you do, when performing this action we recommend that you always have an active antivirus so that we can be protected.Įnhanced protection gives us a faster and more proactive defense against dangerous downloads, extensions, and web pages. The proper way would be to disable it momentarily until you download that file successfully and then enable it again. If the Virus scan failed alert prevents Chrome from downloading files from the Internet, clear your browser cache, and disable your extensions. We are going to explain step by step how to disable Chrome protection if we are experiencing problems downloading a file. In these cases, this failure usually comes from a bad installation of Google Chrome, so the most correct solution would be to uninstall it and reinstall it again. What happens is that it takes a long time to analyze or verify that file and the process may take forever. On the other hand, although it is not usual, sometimes it is the Internet browser itself that causes the problem. This causes the Google Chrome protection system to end up blocking a download.

The problem is that in some situations these defense and protection functions warn us of risks that really are not, and what we know as false positives. This is because they offer tools and functions to protect Internet users and avoid problems that endanger our computers. Modern browsers are much more secure today.

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