Search giant details how much malware its Safe Browsing keeps away from users and hints at scanning Chrome extensions

• Google finds about 9,500 new malicious Web sites per day, either innocent ones that have been compromised by hackers or sites built specifically to distribute malware or for phishing.
• About 600 million users of Chrome,Firefox, andSafari see several million warnings per day about malware and phishing on sites the users are about to visit.
• About 12 million to 14 million Google Search queries per day display the warning that sites are compromised.
• Google provides malware warnings four about 300,000 downloads per day through its download protection service for Chrome.
• Google sends thousands of notices to Webmasters daily and to ISPS about malware they need to remove or protect users from.
• Phishing pages are often removed within an hour or less of their detection.

The company is pushing its anti-malware technology into new areas including plans to scan Chrome extensions, or plug-ins found in the Chrome Web Store, for malware; adding instantaneous phishing detection and download protection within the Chrome browser; and boosting the protection ofAndroid apps. A spokesman declined to comment further on these efforts.