Still, the company urges users to help by taking its warnings seriously when they come across one, and by helping to identify bad sites such as by selecting the check box on the red warning page in Chrome.

Website owners, meanwhile, should register with , the company says. "Doing so helps us inform you quickly if we find suspicious code on your website at any point," Provos explained.

For the future, Google's Safe Browsing team is now working on instantaneous phishing detection and download protection within Chrome; Chrome extension malware scanning; and protection for .