LXer: Chrome to block downloads of hazardous .exe files

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04-07-2011, 01:50 AM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,372 Rep:	LXer: Chrome to block downloads of hazardous .exe files Published at LXer: As well as sounding the alarm when navigating to a nefarious web site, in the future the Windows version of Google's Chrome browser will block downloads of infected .exe files. Users will, however, still be able to override this feature and download them anyway. Read More...

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