Use Safe Browsing in Chrome

With Safe Browsing, you get alerts about malware, risky extensions, phishing or sites on Google’s list of potentially unsafe sites. Learn more about Safe Browsing protection in Chrome.

Change your Safe Browsing settings 

1. On your computer, open Chrome . 
2. Click More   Settings .
3. Click Privacy and security  Safe Browsing.
4. Select the level of Safe Browsing that you want to use.

Browsing protection levels

Enhanced protection

• Automatically warns you about potentially risky sites, downloads and extensions.
• Automatically warns you about leaked passwords.
• Sends additional info to Google about your activity. Learn more about Safe Browsing protection.
• Inspects the safety of your downloads and warns you when a file may be dangerous. 
  • You can choose to send this file to Google to be scanned for added security.

Standard protection

• Automatically warns you about potentially risky sites, downloads and extensions.
• You can choose to be warned about leaked passwords. 
• To improve security on the web for everyone, you can choose to send additional info to Google.

No protection

• Safe Browsing is turned off. 
• Features used in the other protection levels are turned off.
• Safe Browsing might still be turned on in other Google services, like Gmail.

 

Related resources

• Manage warnings about unsafe sites 
• Choose your privacy settings 
• Choose which Google features you use in Chrome 
• Manage Chrome safety and security