On 06/22/2016 04:14 PM, 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 am asking because my wife did a no-no yesterday. She received an > E-mail purportedly from my cousin. It was not! While it had my > cousin's name in the From: header field, the E-mail address was quite > wrong. Not noticing the discrepancy, my wife opened the message, which > contained a Web link. She then selected the link. Very shortly > thereafter, she called me into her office to ask about this. I > immediately deleted the message and started a virus scan (AVG). AVG > found a virus in the SeaMonkey cache. My wife had both checkboxes under > "Safe Browsing" checked, so I am wondering how effective is the Safe > Browsing capability. >
You might want to ask on the Dev list (Wong and Callek). These may be of interest: <https://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings/2016-06-21#Action_Items> <quote> OPEN Google just announced V4 of the safebrowsing api. No actions currently needed. Firefox adds support for it in bug 1167038. Google API key for Safe Browsing. Ewong/Callek about getting it loaded onto the build machines. Per bug 903439#c10, ewong has a Google API key (stating that for Geolocation service). Safe Browsing key is apparently still missing. </quote> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1167038> <https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/v4/#lookup-api-v4> _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
