safebrowsing-cache.google.com

[w1z4rd]

Would anyone know why this url would have several GB`s used by it on a network?

3.8GB this month on this network...

safebrowsing-cache.google.com 391022 3884.514 326602 (83.5%) 3129.495 (80.6%)

It says that its used to filter out phishing sites and stuff... but 3.8GBs?

 

[McGuywer]

Compared to you "normal" browsing?

 

[w1z4rd]

Well its 24GB of http traffic, and of that almost 4GB comes from that URL.

 

[Random717]

Could be Firefox downloading updates for the phishing database it keeps in the user profile directory "urlclassifier3.sqlite". It can get to 20-30MB, and it gets re-downloaded if it's deleted (mandatory profiles or computers have deep freeze or steady state installed). Turn off 'Block reported attack sites' and 'Block reported web forgeries' to get around this.

 

[akescpt]

i uninstalled chrome because of this. stupid google. when you have a limit at work you cant afford to waste 50mb on google nonsense..