On 06/22/2016 07:40 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
David E. Ross wrote:
If I select [Edit > Preferences > Privacy & Security] on the SeaMonkey
menu bar, the Privacy & Security pane has a section named "Safe
Browsing". This section has two checkboxes, one for sites with malware
and viruses and one for phishing.
If I have those checkboxes checked, I assume SeaMonkey is checking Web
sites that I try to visit against some database. Who owns that
database? How often is it updated? How often does SeaMonkey check that
database?
I think you're on the right track. MozillaZine has a rather old page
(last modified 22:45, 3 June 2013) that describes the feature:
<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_browsing>
Anyone have anything more recent?
Just this.
Google Safe Browsing
<http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/safebrowsing/> was an
anti-phishing extension released by Google on labs.google.com
<http://labs.google.com/> in December 2005. Google has released this
extension to the Mozilla Foundation under MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 in
order that it might be used as part of Firefox if desired. We've
landed this change on the trunk as a global extension as of 7 March 2006.
REF: <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Safe_Browsing>
It is now an API.
Safe Browsing is a Google service that lets client applications check
URLs against Google's constantly updated lists of unsafe web resources.
REF: <https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/>
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