Showing posts with label Chrome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chrome. Show all posts

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Wave of warnings on P2P sites from Chrome and Firefox

Since yesterday is very likely that the following has occurred to you: the Chrome and Firefox browsers have qualified several websites with links to P2P download sites with malicious code as showing a warning with a completely red background and quite apocalyptic. It is the case of Rarbg, ExtraTorrent or KickassTorrents, among others.


This is not a lock, but the page acts almost as one apparently offering a unique option to return to the page where we were before. You can always move forward "at your own risk" if you click on Details, then click the button to go to the website anyway. It is quite hidden, but not impossible to find.


Right now many of these sites have already solved this problem, but when Google still had active websites qualified as simply "suspicious" warning that some sites could install malware that installs additional listings in secure sites. And remove the malware, in some cases, it is quite complicated.


The question is: why suddenly Chrome and Firefox have called P2P download sites as suspects so quickly? It is impossible not to think of some kind of strategy behind this movement, while still allowing access to the sites is able to scare away the vast majority of people. Meanwhile, Google has simply been limited to reiterate its policy of protection from some websites containing malware.

Wave of warnings on P2P sites from Chrome and Firefox

Thursday, January 29, 2015

WhatsApp comes to Computers via web browser, finally

Having Whatsapp on your computer has been one of the options that lots of users has been missed in this instant messaging app from its popularization. Their main rivals give that option so it was expected the most used service on the world, with over 700 million active users per month, implemented this possibility sooner rather than later.




After rumors of recent days and even a controversy by blocking third-party applications, WhatsApp on your computer is already a reality. It comes via web browser and in a rather curious way. If you want to know how to use WhatsApp on your computer, here you have all the information you need.

WhatsApp is already accessible from the web but is not yet a cloud service and remains messaging does not store messages except the backup that occurs as an option in mobile applications.


This operation until now had used third-party programs that promised to use WhatsApp from the computer. And it is precisely the basis that the company used to implement its path to the Desktop. No changes in app philosophy for now.

This WhatsApp for computer connects to your smartphone and replicates the content on their website. Basically we have an alternative browser on the smartphone window, but only that.



The technology used is WebRTC, for now it is only available for Chrome browser, both Desktop and other devices also support it. To use it we have also enabled on an Android smarpthone, Blackberry or Windows Phone service. If you use iPhone, for now it is not a service you can access yet.

So, if you have an Android smartphone, Windows Phone or Blackberry, and open the Chrome browser, here is how you can configure everything to use WhatsApp on PC.





WhatsApp comes to Computers via web browser, finally