The Malwarebytes Browser Guard Settings screen allows you to customize protection settings for all websites you visit with your browser. These settings do not apply to private or incognito windows. Click the cog icon in the upper-right corner of the Browser Guard screen to view Settings.
The Settings screen contains toggle switches to turn protection settings on or off. Disabling any of the protection features may limit your browsing privacy and security.
See the following list for a description of each protection setting:
- All protection settings: This switch toggles all settings On or Off.
- Ads/Trackers: This is a privacy setting and has no effect on your safety. Turning this setting off may slow website access.
- Malware: This setting affects your safety. It filters sites you access based on the Browser Guard malware database.
- Scams: This setting affects your safety. When on, it filters sites known to participate in scams.
- gTLD domains: This setting blocks suspicious top-level domains (TLD) that are frequently used by scam or phishing sites.
- Show block count: This setting allows you to manage the display of block count on the extension icon while you browse the internet.
- Advanced Skimmer Protection: This setting affects your safety. While On, it protects your card details from skimming tactics used by scammers on checkout pages.
- Verbose Logging: This setting is for collecting logs for third-party testing and Malwarebytes customer support.
- Monthly summary: This setting shows a notification that summarizes what Browser Guard has detected or blocked in the last 30 days.
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Notifications
- Monthly summary: This setting sends you a summary of detections and blocks from the last 30 days.
- Real-time malware notifications: This setting notifies you when it actively stops malware while you're browsing the internet. When the setting is off, Browser Guard still blocks the malware on the webpage, but won't notify you.
- Data breach notifier: This setting notifies you when you visit the website of a company or business that has had a data breach. This notification will only show once per site.
- New release notifications: This setting notifies you when there is a new update available.
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