But since Browser Guard protection is at the browser level, it can leverage heuristics and behavioral data from the web pages themselves. Browser Guard does not have the ability to do this. As you noted, Malwarebyte Premium offers web protection at the driver level, so it can block malicious inbound and outbound connection attempts. On the topic of the level of web-based protection offered by each Malwarebytes Premium and Browser Guard, while there are some overlaps when blocking domains and IPs, each product has additional features not included in the other. Access browser activity during navigation.Access browser tabs ( possibly even recently closed tabs).I can assure you that we do not download any files ourselves nor do we modify the download history, but alas we do not control the wording of the permission statement.Īs for the lack of logs, this was true in the Beta version and as a result of customer feedback we included the blocking information on a newly created statistics page in our launch product. In order to provide this service we’re required to present this permission. This is present in ours alone because it’s a service only we provide, that of blocking potential malicious downloads. The only permission that we have that the other two do not is “Download files and read and modify the browser’s download history”. As you can see the very nature of an Ad blocking extension requires fundamental permissions that we all share in common. I appreciate you taking the time to review the Malwarebytes Browser Guard extension, and would like to respond to the concerns you’ve raised about permissions.įor reference I’ve included the permissions as published on the Mozilla site for Malwarebytes Browser Guard, uBlock Origin, and Adaware. With MWB you have to open the extension and change settings, no on/off switch. I haven’t installed the MWB extension, I’ll keep using Ublock Origin and AdAware, they are much less intrusive and one click enables/disables protection (White Lists) a website. Coupled with Windows Defender and computer use common sense I’ll be okay. I use MWB AV, I like it’s ease of use and the speed of it’s manual scans. I read that as no log, no way of telling what they are doing at all. U/ripesashimi said this in a post comparing this MWB extension to Ublock Origin while this extension was in beta:Īlso no log so no way to tell which has been blocked.
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