Chrome – Google’s Web Browser

Google’s Chrome web browser is setting a new standard for security that we really are excited about here at PC Blogger. Google has incorporated the “sandbox” practice of separating the application processes from other applications such as the Operating System(OS) and user data.

This concept will make it harder for attackers to infect your PC or Mac with malicious software. If the malware that an attacker was trying to engage on your PC or Mac’s web browser was successful then it still would have to exploit the sandbox technology and then make its attack to the OS and you data. Google’s Chrome will isolate HTML rendering and JavaScript into their own class of processes which will sandbox the Chrome browser tab(s) from your OS.

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 7-8 has incorporated what they dub as “Protected Mode” which can reduce privileges on the attackers code and make it difficult to read, write, or alter any data. Notice we said “reduce”.

Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari and Opera do not offer any “sandboxing” technology to date. Mozilla has a feature called “Electrolysis” which has the sandboxing technology slated to be released in late 2010 or early 2011.

I don’t know about you but malware that installs itself and has the ability to read my files is not something I can live with. Ugh!

Please see our link to Google’s Chrome Web Browser and try it for yourself here.