google safe browsing service is unavailable

From the Safari menu bar, select

Safari ▹ Preferences ▹ Security

and uncheck the box marked

Warn when visiting a fraudulent website

Then check the box again. Wait a minute or so and test.

Boot in safe mode. This will cause certain caches maintained by the system to be rebuilt.

Safe mode is much slower to boot than normal.

When the login screen appears, reboot as usual (not in safe mode) and test. There's no need to log in while in safe mode.

Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t boot in safe mode. In that case, ask for instructions.

This worked for me... Thanks

Thanks to Linc Davis it worked for me also 🙂

Thanks to Linc David

thanks linc it just worked for me after i deleted the cache for safari manually following a bloggers web instruction.... whicl it remade the safari.db it also gave me that warning that you helped me fix by a simple boot to safe mode...loving my mac more and more each doy i play with it.

Worked for me too! Thanks! 😀

Thanks Linc it worked for me too (so far at least).

How To Fix: "Google Safe Browsing Service is Unavailable" Error in Safari

1. Open the Terminal.

2. Then type, "sudo su -", put your user password.

3. Type in: find / | grep -i "SafeBrowsing.db"

4. Delete the SafeBrowsing.db file found. This will force Safari to rebuild the file.

5. This should fix the problem. But check back again, a few days later, and see if there are no more errors. *Note, the file doesn't seem to be updated every day.

Thanks Linc.

Had the same problem for a month now.

Thanks Linc Davis the first suggestion work for me

and Vansheldor for opening this forum.

Excellent lcvleo, this worked for me. 🙂 Nice remembering my unix commands.