That’s interesting, Chris, about Google’s safe browsing. I shall continue to
trust it for the moment.
But Outlook Express: that’s the first time that I’ve seen it described as a
file browser. It’s just an email client, I thought, and a deprecated one at
that.
Chris
> On 4 Jul 2015, at 15:47, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> I then used Outlook Express (the Microsoft file manager) to see what if
> any files had been installed or modified on the hard drive. I didn't see
> anything on the first day, but yesterday there were a number of new folders
> in the Documents and Settings folder. One of these was named "safebrowsing".
> Huh? Never heard of it.
>
> A quick search with Duckduckgo revealed that it is a Google Toolbar
> product that sends any URL you access to Google for evaluation. OH
> REALLY?????
>
> The site:
>
> <http://www.avinashtech.com/disable-google-safe-browsing-firefox/
> <http://www.avinashtech.com/disable-google-safe-browsing-firefox/>>
>
> provides instructions for disabling safebrowsing. I went beyond their
> instructions and anything labeled as TRUE was toggled to FALSE. Turns out
> that this item has been around for a few years, but it was only installed on
> my machine in background in the past few days. What's curious here is that I
> just removed all Google items from my hard drive, but they are still
> streaming in and taking over. I suspect that my Spybot malware utility will
> soon identify it as malware and delete it just as it did with Pricebong.
>
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