Emsisoft Browser Security Protects You from Malicious Sites

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For those looking for extra protection while browsing the web, Emsisoft has a released a browser extension that will block you from interacting with known phishing, malware, or scam sites.

This Emsisoft Browser Security extension is currently available for Chrome and Firefox, with Emsisoft stating that they hope to have one available for Microsoft Edge in the future.

When installed, the extension will quietly run in the background and will query Emsisoft's servers as you browse the web to to determine if a site should be blocked. If the site you are visiting is detected as malicious, it will block you from interacting with the site as shown below.


Blocked Site

If a site that is blocked by the extension is actually legitimate, you can click on the Report an error button to alert Emsisoft and display the site. This site will also be added to your exclusion list so it will not be blocked in the future.

To view the sites in your Exclusion list, you can click on the extension's icon and select Manage exclusions as shown below.


Manage exclusions option

This will cause a list of the currently excluded sites to be displayed and allow you to remove any that were added by mistake.


Excluded Site List

While testing the site against urls listed in the OpenPhish list, Emsisoft's extension did an excellent job blocking all but one of the phishing sites currently listed.

Report malicious, scam, or phishing sites to Emsisoft
There are a lot of unwanted scammy and malicious sites out there, so if you find one that was not blocked by the Emsisoft's extension, please report it to them.

Reporting a site is easy. While on the unwanted site, click on the extension's icon and select Report this site as dangerous.


Report Site

When you report a site, the current URL will be sent to Emsisoft's servers where it will analyze by their researchers.

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