- Feb 25, 2017
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Cause only few people would actually use those features. Most users apart from us geeks would probably just use the default settings anyway...
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Not sure, but I think a Guardio representative just followed me here on MalwareTips. Maybe @SharonGuardio can answer us some questions here?
Simple. You stop risky features and introduce a safe mode or a lockdown mode then you probably stop telemetry and data collection. All browsers except privacy focus ones rely heavily on spying to create revenue and they earn vast amounts of money from the data they collect in the browser. You stop risky behaviours then you stop the money, not going to happen!
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- Nov 17, 2020
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That's true! I'm Sharon from Guardio, I sent this thread to our security team - great questions here! They will answer them in this thread
- Jan 8, 2023
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Hey everyone! I'm Nati, head of Guardio Labs - Guardio's research group. I was very glad to see this thread and your relevant comments and ideas! Will do my best to answer all your questions here:
- Guardio is not an Anti-Virus - That is kind of our motto here. We realize that the most abused attack vector these days is our browser - we do everything with it from work, gaming, shopping, social, emails... and meanwhile get tons of phishing, malvertising, and other scam attempts. This is why we focus our current efforts on a solution that is a browser extension (chromium based - Chrome and Edge, no firefox/safari at least for now). This is how we can be first to block those attempts - not only bad advertisements (e.g. adblockers) but also phishing links, tech support scams (that start as a phone call/email), bad files download, malicious chrome extensions, browser hijackers... basically stop any malicious activity that is focused or starts in your browser. So, for example, we stop malware before it was even downloaded...
- Smartscreen / Safe Browsing vs. Guardio - Indeed there are built-in solutions, yet those are unfortunately not enough. Our group of analysts and researchers are working hard to find more and more ways to block new scams and malicious activities, way before standard solutions are able to. We've seen many high-volume as well as targeted attacks that for days and even weeks were ignored by those methods. Also, malware loaders being tagged as safe in virustotal and other EDRs. Our approach managed to capture those right on start and of course block those attempts for our users. We share some of those research details and conclusions in our blog so feel free to visit us and read more about it at: Guardio – Medium
- Downloads Block - we block bad downloads at several checkpoints along the way. Blocking the original serving domains, blocking websites that link or manipulate you to download it, and also blocking the download itself after scanning attributes of the file (before releasing it for the user to execute). We make the max out of what the extension context allows us + using our backend data stream to make real-time decisions.
Hope those answer your questions! Please feel free to ask any other questions, we will be happy to hear your suggestions as well!
Nati,
Guardio Labs - https://labs.guard.io
Guardio - https://www.guard.io
- Guardio is not an Anti-Virus - That is kind of our motto here. We realize that the most abused attack vector these days is our browser - we do everything with it from work, gaming, shopping, social, emails... and meanwhile get tons of phishing, malvertising, and other scam attempts. This is why we focus our current efforts on a solution that is a browser extension (chromium based - Chrome and Edge, no firefox/safari at least for now). This is how we can be first to block those attempts - not only bad advertisements (e.g. adblockers) but also phishing links, tech support scams (that start as a phone call/email), bad files download, malicious chrome extensions, browser hijackers... basically stop any malicious activity that is focused or starts in your browser. So, for example, we stop malware before it was even downloaded...
- Smartscreen / Safe Browsing vs. Guardio - Indeed there are built-in solutions, yet those are unfortunately not enough. Our group of analysts and researchers are working hard to find more and more ways to block new scams and malicious activities, way before standard solutions are able to. We've seen many high-volume as well as targeted attacks that for days and even weeks were ignored by those methods. Also, malware loaders being tagged as safe in virustotal and other EDRs. Our approach managed to capture those right on start and of course block those attempts for our users. We share some of those research details and conclusions in our blog so feel free to visit us and read more about it at: Guardio – Medium
- Downloads Block - we block bad downloads at several checkpoints along the way. Blocking the original serving domains, blocking websites that link or manipulate you to download it, and also blocking the download itself after scanning attributes of the file (before releasing it for the user to execute). We make the max out of what the extension context allows us + using our backend data stream to make real-time decisions.
Hope those answer your questions! Please feel free to ask any other questions, we will be happy to hear your suggestions as well!
Nati,
Guardio Labs - https://labs.guard.io
Guardio - https://www.guard.io
- Feb 25, 2017
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Really appreciate the detailed explanation. Is there any planned date when Guardio will be available for Gecko-based browsers? (Firefox for example)
As your extension heavily relies on its permissions in the browser I see a hard future for you once Manifest v3 is being pushed out. Do you already have a backup plan?
- Jan 8, 2023
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We plan to release our v3 soon with all features working just the same as on v2. So no worries here
Just checked and MBAM Browser Guard blocks downloads, nothing was downloaded. On same URL's with for instance McFee SiteAdvisor, Microsodt Defender pops up telling me it neutralized malware.
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That's not what I meant tbh. I meant that Guardio might be able to scan the file once it is already downloaded.
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Thanks but I don't really know what you're trying to tell me with this. I never stated that Guardio is better than Malwarebytes Browser Guard or any other extension. I simply try to explain what it does different compared to other web protection extensions.
- Apr 4, 2021
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Do you know about the problem with working in Opera? For some reason in Opera, after installation, when I log in through the extension I can open only my profile, even direct links to the scanner give a redirect to the profile and nothing else. In Edge everything works for me.
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I understand their reasoning but required credit card is a deal-breaker for me, otherwise I'd test it.Another little software to test
- Mar 29, 2018
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Indeed, there is a cost to everything and service-by-subscription is the new normal. By default Guardio knows everything about your browsing experience.
@GuardioLabs have you developed the extension for future MV3 compatibility?
- Apr 4, 2021
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So far they haven't even fixed compatibility with Opera ... That really upsets me.
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