A new Chrome security update gives Mac users better protection when they go online.

Poisoned Apple

Long gone are the days when Macs were a malware-free zone. Over recent years, Macs have been increasingly targeted with OS X/macOS-specific forms of online nastiness.

To help make the online experience safer for Mac users, Google Safe Browsing is rolling out a security update for Chrome that tackles two of the most common forms unwanted online intrusions: ad injections, and manipulation of Chrome user settings.

Symptoms

Unwanted manipulation of your Chrome user settings usually results in changes being made to your default settings, such as your start page, home page or changing your default search engine.

Ad injections are Google’s term for those horrible unexpected ads that pop up to interrupt or redirect your browsing. At best they’re an annoyance, at worst they can attempt to direct you to compromised websites with the aim of infecting your machine with malware.

The Antidote

The security update puts Chrome on the lookout for precisely these kinds of attacks, and will issues users with a big red warning that the site they are about to visit has been flagged as nefarious. Users can then abort their search activity before they put themselves at risk.

The updates will go active on March 31, 2017.

Click here to find out more.

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