Google Drive warns of files with security issues

Google has previously issued a policy change reminder, and if users store or use files with security issues in Google Drive, a banner warning will pop up. The files with security problems here refer to files with Trojan viruses or backdoor programs. Google hopes to improve the security of enterprise use in this way. The products include Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, and Google Drawings. When users try to open these files, they will also be temporarily blocked, and Google will explain the reason for the blocking in a pop-up reminder, and then the user can reopen such files.

Google notes: “If a user opens a potentially suspicious or dangerous file in Google Drive, we will display a warning banner to help protect them and their organization from malware, phishing and ransomware.”

The policy is being implemented gradually, but some users have found the problem of misjudgment, and some users have complained that the documents they store are considered by Google to have potential security problems.

The user claimed that the file was actually a plain text file with only one line of numbers, and it was surprising that Google scanned the file for security issues.

According to Google’s instructions, the current new policy can be configured by enterprise administrators, that is, it has not been widely rolled out, but in the future, this option will be enabled by default to scan files.

In the future, more files may be falsely reported, and all files that are judged to have security problems will be blocked from sharing, and users can only view them by themselves.