extension ExtPose

Malwarebytes Browser Guard

CRX id

ihcjicgdanjaechkgeegckofjjedodee-

Description from extension meta

The fastest and safest web browsing experience.

Image from store Malwarebytes Browser Guard
Description from store Malwarebytes Browser Guard blocks malicious websites, credit card skimmers and trackers while filtering out annoying ads and other unwanted content. In fact, you can browse up to four times faster. It is the world’s first browser extension that can identify and block new fake tech support scams. And Malwarebytes Browser Guard crushes pop-ups, browser hijackers, and browser lockers with ease. We take on the bad guys, so you don’t have to. Download Malwarebytes Browser Guard for an awesome online experience now. What it does for you: Blocks ads & loads pages faster Speeds up how fast web pages display by blocking ads and other unwanted content, providing a cleaner experience and increased bandwidth. Puts the hurt on tech support scammers Identifies and stops browser lockers, browser hijackers, and other scare tactics tech support scammers use to con you out of money. Protects your privacy Blocks trackers that follow you around the Internet and target you with the same ads over and over again. Stops malware in your browser Blocks web pages that contain malware, stops in-browser cryptojackers (unwanted cryptocurrency miners), and gives other malicious content the boot. Features • Advertising/tracker protection: Blocks third-party ads and trackers that monitor your online activity. The number of blocked ads & blocked trackers for a website will show beside the Malwarebytes logo in your browser. • Scam protection: Blocks online scams, including technical support scams, browser lockers, and phishing. • Browser-level malware protection: Blocks malicious programs or code that can damage your system. • Protection against XSS Malicious Remote Script Injection.

Latest reviews

  • (2024-01-25) Z-0N: Hey Malwarebytes! Please fix the browser guard extension! It stops working upon closing down chrome, the only fix for this it seems is removing the extension from chrome entirely, then readding it back to chrome. upon closing chrome it deactivates and says that it requires you to subscribe to premium. Very strange! it stopped blocking cookies and ad/ trackers too! i had to manually block them on chrome.
  • (2023-11-17) Filip Galetic: As of October 2023, no longer blocks ads on YouTube, in fact, having it makes the skippable ads non skippable!
  • (2023-11-14) William Feely: Malwarebytes client doesn't recognize installation of the add-on, both on version 4 and on 5 Beta.
  • (2023-11-07) Muhammad Rifal Hafizd: youtube detects this as an adblocker
  • (2023-11-07) Skeptik: I'm getting blocks from this app on websites I know for a fact don't have any harm to them. This is giving too many false positives.
  • (2023-11-04) Michael Phillips: I don't know whats with the bad reviews. It blocks almost all harmful sites and the detection ratio is amazing! The ad blocking is perfect!
  • (2023-11-01) Kärlîtä Rödrîgúëz: En lo personal a mi siempre me a gustado esta extensión para navegar tranquilamente por internet sin tener problemas con las amenazas de virus y poder disfrutar de la reproducción de videos sin anuncios, pero ahora ya a comenzado a fallar en el aspecto de que no bloquea los anuncios de YouTube, me gustaría que solucionasen, extraño no tener que esperar largos minutos de anuncios..:¨) 💔
  • (2023-10-28) Jupiter 0000: Sprawdziła sie, polecam
  • (2023-10-27) Ванёк: Агонь!
  • (2023-10-25) Geesy Swan: installed malwarebytes once, now every website thinks i have adblocker, even after i uninstalled malwarebytes and everything. avoid if you want to use websites with adblocker prevention
  • (2023-10-21) Luk Caluwaerts: AD-Block Plus + Privacy Batcher + Ublock Origin + GDATA + FREE AVAST + Malwarebytes + Superantispyware = 8 Layers of protection + PROTON VPN FREE. No more malware, viruses, ransomware
  • (2023-10-19) Brett: The review down below that claims this extension installs viruses is utterly nonsensical. It doesn't. That's not to say, however, that it's good. It isn't. It's not so much a case of it being bad, but rather of other extensions doing everything better. Want to block ads and trackers? uBlock Origin is the gold standard. Want protection from phishing and other malicious websites that doesn't compromise your privacy? Get Emsisoft.
  • (2023-10-18) Sanaralerx: YouTube seems to detect it as an Adblocker and will disable access to videos. Disable the adblocker and install a better adblocker (uBlock Origin)
  • (2023-10-18) farrier noire: DO NOT INSTALL! Malwarebytes Chrome Extension installed 2 malware viruses; Presenoker and HotCleaner. Both viruses disguised themselves as "Appnhost", on separate occasions, which looks and seems like a regular Windows program (because it is, but the viruses take over the name and app itself. This malware will NOT let you delete the Malwarebytes root folder or any other folder that requires Administrator privilege's. It denies you from changing security changes, like accessing a folder as an Administrator or not, changing principles, inheritance, etc.. If that wasn't enough, HotCleaner hijacks your browser, rerouting whatever you do through Microsoft Bing, all in the while of stealing your information behind the scenes, thus showing a ton of pop-ups, all of which are malicious because it's derived from HotCleaner, not whatever actual advertisement company that's shown on the ad. Do not install unless you want to reset your computer, reinstall Windows on your PC, use System Restore to an earlier point in time (although many people say this doesn't get rid of the malware, so it's best to do a complete reset of the PC). Malwarebytes does have a support/troubleshoot tool that has worked for many other people that have experienced this problem. I forgot to mention that Malwarebytes is BLOATWARE to the extreme. Almost as bad as GeForce Experience/NVIDIA. It'll have. I just installed it and within seconds of the installation, there are 5.. FIVE background processes that are taking up roughly 20% of memory. The extension reloads itself every so often, inflating your CPU and memory percentages, slowing down your PC. TL;DR - Don't install Malwarebytes. I've had it on numerous occasions where it has worked "fine", but it only takes once for it to inject malware into your PC, and it gives not one but TWO malware/viruses/trojan's.
  • (2023-10-17) Cody Claxton: Malwarebytes claims they don't support web browser malware defense. There is clearly a extension but they just avoided my issue entirely. I have a malware infection causing a constant popup window with ads. Malwarebytes did not detect it, and when I asked them to help they just repeated to me what information we can all find on a google search. I demanded a refund, which they granted. But I would not trust their malware software.
  • (2023-10-16) Dimitar Qvorov: The best and most solid Chrome protection against malicious websites. Top tier
  • (2023-10-15) JinOldGamer: Simple et très efficace, certainement l'une des meilleures si ce n'est la meilleure dans sa catégorie.
  • (2023-10-14) SR world: Nice extension, Although i have ublock adblocker, I needed some protection too!
  • (2023-10-13) Абоба: Имба
  • (2023-10-11) Johny Marochnic: great extension that I've been using since it came out, but when I want to watch YouTube videos I have to delete it I hope you fix it, I don't want to delete the MB. Blocking videos is a violation of YouTube's terms of service It looks like you may be using an ad blocker. Unless YouTube is whitelisted or ad blocking is turned off, videos are blocked from playing. Thanks to ads, YouTube can be used by billions of people around the world. To watch ad-free content, subscribe to YouTube Premium. Authors can continue to get paid from your subscription
  • (2023-10-10) droptozro: Been great since I started using it a few months ago. But the Youtube ad-skip/block is no longer working. Please fix that. It's the primary reason I'm a subscriber and user of MalwareBytes.
  • (2023-10-10) Сергей Артамонов: прога нашла 4 вируса ,который не видел касперский ,удалил ,теперь думаю переийти с касперского на малвери
  • (2023-10-10) Ernst Sigl: Its the best filter of baddies I have seen. It is fast and from my many years of experience, no other Browser Guard comes close to Malwarebytes efficiency. If a website I know is clean but complains that i must show the ads, I just turn it off for that site. It remembers it and I have no more pop-ups complaining.
  • (2023-10-10) Ciyei: Muy buena aplicación para la seguridad ♥
  • (2023-10-08) Abdul Baqi: youtube videos not working if ad blocking is ON
  • (2023-10-06) - N: 有用
  • (2023-10-05) Stefano Salezzari: io sono uno smanettatore e guard mi risolve un tot di problemi quindi 5 stars
  • (2023-10-03) AGGRESS1VEX: Хорош!
  • (2023-09-28) David Balascak: It has been causing chrome to freeze up. there needs to be an update for this lockup problem
  • (2023-09-21) Fernando Taddeo: Best antivirus
  • (2023-09-21) uglyzodiac (Rue): Me gusta bastante, pero tiende a crashearse de forma continúa. Espero puedan resolver eso, de lo demás es muy buena aplicación.
  • (2023-09-21) Andrei-Cosmin: One of the best extensions for safe browsing and enhanced security. This extension enabled with enhanced browser setting from google chrome is the best way to protect from malware and other tracking adds and scams websites. Malwarebites browser guard is the best! Keep up the good work and thanks for all security protection!
  • (2023-09-20) Turgut Yüce: Mükemmel
  • (2023-09-17) Vince AKA Wolfe Pignotti: No one has managed to refine and make a better Browser guard In my opinion this browser guard has never let me down even on u tube..... VR Wolfe
  • (2023-09-16) J J: It's a useless extension by a good brand. I use Ublock Origin, it's 100x better and 100x more effective. Don't waste your time with it. They get your browser info and offer nothing in return
  • (2023-09-15) Keith Williams: Brilliant app, been using for years, mostly to block youtube ads. From today though that functionality no longer works - I'd forgotten how tedious unskippable youtube ads are :-(
  • (2023-09-12) Андрей Гуртовой: Не нравится Хакерам вот и критикуют, да определяет, да блокирует. Удобные расширенные настройки, белый черный список. С другими расширениями не конфликтует еще и бесплатный. В рот компот тому кто ,,Даренному коню в зубы смотрит.,,
  • (2023-09-11) Ritzarnt: Extensão boa detecta malwares e sites maliciosos, a internet hoje está cheia de malwares sempre é bom usar esse tipo de extensão para o navegador ficar seguro. além que há sites com trojans e a gente nem imagina e a extensão detecta. enfim 10/10 recomendo!.
  • (2023-09-04) Sergio: APRESENTANDO CONFLITO COM Componente de Segurança Bradesco. O site do banco carrega normalmente quando remove a extensão...
  • (2023-08-28) Tulio Castillo: Es muy funcional para la detección de páginas de virus.
  • (2023-08-27) Sumudu Ranathunga: Now, for a few years, I've been using the Malwarebytes extension for all my web browsers. It is highly effective for security and it works as an adblocker. There are a lot of rip-off gold-digging apps doing the same thing with the high paywall. But Malwarebytes give everything for free. This is an underrated app. I highly recommend this extension as an extra protection layer for every web browser.
  • (2023-08-27) C O: I have Malwarebytes Pro. I have been using it for many years & I am very happy with it. PLEASE add the Brave browser to the browsers you support. I only use the Brave browser. You currently support Chrome, Firefox & Edge. The Brave Browser has saved me from hours of unwanted ads & popups unlike Chrome & Edge. Thank you in advance.
  • (2023-08-22) Gabriel Morales: Se me elimino sola, sera peligrosa?
  • (2023-08-22) Tongs: Pop up and spam blocker that's about it. Offers minimal protection against malware that does slip through the cracks. Is this extension still updated? it could be better.
  • (2023-08-21) Dave “Balbotoys” Balboni: Funziona, nulla da dire ma nel mo caso specifico troppi falsi positivi. Ingestibile
  • (2023-08-16) Luis López: Le cambiaron a color blanco el ícono de la extensión y se ve muy mal.
  • (2023-08-13) J Gin: Thanks it helped me get rid of those ads that tracks my history
  • (2023-08-12) Rod Montrose: This used to be great and it has identified potentially dangerous sites I was about to visit. But now that Google has introduced "safe browsing" this extension was dramatically slowing down my browser. Using a process of elimination I was able to identify this extension was dramatically slowing my Chrome browser. Now that it's disabled, my browser is responsive again.
  • (2023-08-11) Dave Morris: This extension was very good. For years. But it now blocks known legitimate sites that I need for my work. This bricks the browser in the process, resulting in lost work. And since there is no way to whitelist known safe sites (once Malwarebytes bricks the browser tab), the extension is effectively useless. So I'm removing it. How to turn a highly valued extension into a turd.
  • (2023-08-06) Colin Sachs: Works okay under Windows, but in Chrome under Ubuntu, the notifications keep turning themselves back on every launch of Chrome forcing you to turn them off again... and then once off, notification turns back on the next time you launch resulting in an annoying summary screen popping up every single time. Stupid and the company won't do anything to address the issue.

Latest issues

  • (2019-06-25, v:1.0.44) rebecca truman: spyware
    I'm pretty sure that I have spyware on my chromebook. Is there a way to get it off?
  • (2019-05-28, v:1.0.44) mike robinson: Ad blocking failing on Chromebooks.
    I've been using Malwarebytes Browser Extension on my three Chromebooks for the last month and I am continually finding the ad blocking is erratic, sometimes it works and ten minutes later it doesn't, same ads being blocked or not being blocked, any thoughts ?
  • (2019-05-22, v:1.0.44) Gary Peterson: MLB Chrome Browser ext crash report
    Surface Go Win 10 Pro patched current, Version 74.0.3729.169 (Official Build) (64-bit) Symtoms, Qualcom atheros QCA61x4A wireless card error 43, card disabled. Chrome reported MLB ext crashed. Disabled then enabled wireless card. Wireless then auto connected and was working as if issue never occurred. Possible issue w windows management of wireless devices, metered connection settings for LTE card being used. unsure why MLB chrome ext would have crashed.
  • (2019-05-18, v:1.0.44) Aaron Hodge: Suddenly started blocking Netflix
    I started getting an error message when trying to view Netflix (Netflix Error M7034). I disabled all of my extensions in Chrome and re-enabled them one by one. It came down to the issue being with the Malwarebytes Browser Extension. I tried whitelisting the site and even using the slider to turn off the adware and malware protection. The only way I could get it to work was by disabling the Extension as a whole. I am a Malwarebytes paid subscriber and love the Malwarebytes products, so I would like to see this resolved.
  • (2019-05-17, v:1.0.44) Comp Tech: Have to disable extension completely in chrome 74.0.3729.157 for netflix to play.
    I just updated chrome and now I have to disable the extension for netflix to work. Netflix plays in edge, firefox, brave, opera & the windows 10 app. Also plays when the extension is disabled. Tried disabling only on netflix, but it still didn't work.
  • (2019-05-17, v:1.0.44) Kevin Stock: Broke Netflix in Chrome
    To get it work with Netflix on Chrome having to leave enable malware protection unchecked. Working fine with Netflix. and Firefox.
  • (2019-05-17, v:1.0.44) Trung Nguyen: Netflix conflict
    Today i found that i can't watch any movie in Netflix when i use Malwarebytes Extensions. Can you fix this problem?
  • (2019-05-16, v:1.0.44) Fusion “Zachrysia” Developer: Broke Netflix May 16, 2019.
    Broke Netflix May 16, 2019.
  • (2019-05-10, v:1.0.44) DENNIS PRIMM: TV Guide Webpage Not Loading
    I just installed your browser extension yesterday and it worked PERFECTLY then, but today when I tried to load the TV Guide webpage (https://www.tvguide.com/listings/#favorites) it came up blank for some reason. Yesterday it loaded the fastest it has ever loaded ever!!! I was so happy!!! Please note: I'm using Adblocker Genesis Plus in conjunction with your extension and it didn't cause any problem yesterday. Today I turned the Adblocker Genesis Plus off and kept your extension on and the TV Guide webpage would still not load, but when I turned your extension off the webpage loaded again albeit slowly as it had in the past. Could you please let me know how to get around this? Is there something I could change in the "Settings" to make it work like it did yesterday? I did not touch anything in the Settings yet, but would be more than happy to make changes to get it to work like it did when I first installed it. I really love your products and have Malwarebytes Premium on my computer and my Samsung smartphone too and tell all of my friends to install it on their computers/phones as well. Thank you Malwarebytes for making such great products!!! :-)
  • (2019-04-23, v:1.0.44) J E: Purchased Malwarebytes $39.99 but haven't had coverage on my Chromebook laptop
    I have tried to install M but how can I apply my previous purchase and get the service?

Statistics

Installs
10,000,000+ history
Category
Rating
3.9811 (1,004 votes)
Last update / version
2024-03-21 / 2.6.24
Listing languages

Links