Google recently launched a new suspicious warning banner for driving, documents, sheets and images as part of the company ‘safe work’ offer and to protect users with rough content and behavior.
But, what new warning banners and how will this help users stay away from malware, phishing and ransomware attacks? In this explorer, we tell you all you need to know about a new suspicious warning banner of Google.
What a suspicious warning banner and when these banners arise a suspicious warning banner is the way Google warns its users to the potential for harmful content they might receive from someone.
Google already has a similar implementation in Gmail which shows a yellow banner at the top of the screen that reads a warning against malicious emails.
On the reading banner drive, “This file looks suspicious.
This might be used to steal your personal information”.
It is also important to know that this is just a notification of banners with a warning.
It won’t really prevent you from downloading files or accessing them.
How it can help users move away from malware, phishing and ransomware as mentioned, this only warning banners and users can choose to trust Google and stop themselves from accessing the file as a whole or ignoring banners and continuing with what they do.
So, everything comes to users whether they want to overcome warning messages from Google or not.
However, it is important to know that Google has certain criteria set to mark suspicious content.
For example, if the file is sent from the sender who is not trusted or from an unusual domain, Google can mark them suspicious or dangerous.
It also scans images that are linked to dangerous content.
So, the feature does not fully protect the user of this attack but of course raises a question mark from the file or document.
It warns users with potentially dangerous files and documents that do not meet Google’s service requirements and their spam policies.
This detection is not 100% perfect, sometimes it might mark a suspicious file if you have received something from a random person, who you know and believe.