MacBook Pro - Safari - Google Safe Browsing Service Unavailable?

[happypeople]

Hello everyone,

I have a 2016 15" MacBook Pro Base Model Wirth 512GB, and I noticed in my Safari Preferences that I am getting the message that "The Google Safe Browsing Service is Unavailable. No updates have occurred in 1 day."

Does anyone know how to resolve this?

All my software is up to date. I have attempted restarting both safari and my machine, as well as unchecking and rechecking the "Warn when visiting a fraudulent website" box.

Any help would be much appreciated, thank you very much!

*Edit: I have no extensions installed for Safari

 

[BarracksSi]

I discovered something about this roughly a month ago when my Safari wasn't able to start up.

The Safe Browsing option uses a database downloaded regularly from Google. In my case, the database had gotten corrupted (not sure whether my local file had simply corrupted itself or the latest file -- at the time -- wasn't any good) and Safari crashed when it tried to load the file.

A google search for the error message I kept getting led me to this brief discussion at Apple Support:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7366898?start=0&tstart=0

The guy who posted the fix also posted this comment:

The "fraudulent sites" warning, which you set in the Security tab of the Safari preferences window, depends on a database downloaded from Google. In your case, the database was corrupt. You can avoid a repetition by disabling that feature. I doubt that it does much good.