Google Chrome Is Getting Automatic Blocking of Malicious Downloads

An anonymous reader writes "Google today announced Chrome is getting an automatic download blocking feature for malware. Google has already added the new functionality to the latest build of Chrome Canary. All versions of Chrome will soon automatically block downloads and let you know in a message at the bottom of your screen. You will be able to "Dismiss" the message, although it's not clear if you will be able to stop or revert the block."

Re:Bah...

[Anonymous Coward]

If you go to Chrome's settings and search for Privacy, you can uncheck "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar" to turn off this behavior. Then it will only autocomplete things from your browser history and bookmarks.

Re:Great news!

[Gravis Zero]

Now, can you let me choose for myself which filetypes are safe or not? For my job, I have to download many PDFs (up to 100 at a time) and Chrome asks me EVERY... SINGLE... FUCKING... TIME "This type of file can harm your computer.

this will remove the down warning for all file types.

on OSX, open /Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences/com.google.Chrome.plist and replace the "download" section with this

      "download": {
          "directory_upgrade": true,
          "prompt_for_download": false
      },

found it in 2 minutes. my google fu is strong.

Re:Great news!

[oreiasecaman]

$ wget -i url_list.txt