Disabling Chrome toolbar - will I lose phishing protection?

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Hi, I would like to disable the toolbar installed by NIS 20122 in Google Chrome, but don’t want to lose the malicious site / phishing protection offered by NIS. If I remove the toolbar will I still have that protection? Many thanks

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Just click the "x" to the left of the toolbar. This will hide the toolbar and ID Safe but leave the Norton icon to the right of the URL bar. You will still have phishing protection that way. 

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GDITech wrote:

Just click the "x" to the left of the toolbar. This will hide the toolbar and ID Safe but leave the Norton icon to the right of the URL bar. You will still have phishing protection that way. 

GDITech - that is not how IE or FF works - is it that different in Chrome? 

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Hi Locquitur,

 

If you are going to hide the tool bar, then you will be protected by Web protection(Safe web,phishing protection), but if you disable Norton toolbar then you will not be protected by Web protection

 

Hope this helps

 

Thanks,

Senthil.

 

 

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Hi Senthil,


Thank you for your reply and your clarification of that point for me.


Kind regards

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I've just had a thought - how about if I disable the toolbar, but set-up Norton DNS on my PC (at the same time disabling the Google DNS service which Chrome uses).  Would this act as a workaround, maintaining my level of protection while alloing me to remove the toolbar? 


Many thanks

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Hi, I would like to disable the toolbar installed by NIS 20122 in Google Chrome, but don’t want to lose the malicious site / phishing protection offered by NIS. If I remove the toolbar will I still have that protection? Many thanks

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Yes you can do that also. But you will no longer have safe web ratings built into your searches from what I gather. When you install Chrome it does not change your DNS to Google. You can use level A,B or C in the new Norton DNS along side Safe Web. Does the Norton add on actually bother you that much? Is it interfering with Chrome? Are you getting any sort of problems? 

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Thanks for the reply. I assumed that the DNS pre-fetching in Chrome superceded the PC’s DNS srettings. I have nothing against the toolbar, but given that I don’t actually interact or use it I thought that if I could maintain my protection level without it it would free-up some screen space and speed Chrome up slightly. I also like to use run-on-demand plugins in Chrome and this disables the Norton toolbar due to Chrome’s extension architecture. I regard malicious plugins as a bigger threat to my system than websites since I’m careful about the sites I visit.

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Although I’m not sure how effective run-on-demand is in Chrome, but if it disables extensions I assume it limits scripts which is my primary concern. Of course, with Chrome’s sandbox I am perhaps being over-cautious…

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I am really having BIG problems with the toolbar on Google Chrome, it's interfering with most websites, i.e. putting a full blank page about the site so you need to scroll down, or narrowing the page. I know its the toolbar bc as soon as when disable it, it goes back to normal. I don't want to lose the functionality, but I want to have normal chrome.

 

Please help.

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garethsj wrote:

I am really having BIG problems with the toolbar on Google Chrome, it's interfering with most websites, i.e. putting a full blank page about the site so you need to scroll down, or narrowing the page. I know its the toolbar bc as soon as when disable it, it goes back to normal. I don't want to lose the functionality, but I want to have normal chrome.

 

Please help.

Is your Chrome updated to the latest version.
Have you run LiveUpdate manually a few times, rebooting as necessary, until no updates are available?
There have been some Chrome related updates recently.