What will Guardio do with my data?

Just dropping that even if you do or don't agree with it, listening to feedback from your viewers and seeing if you can improve on it should be applauded. Very mature response in my opinion, and makes me respect you a lot more for what its worth.

Wonder how Malwarebytes BrowserGuard would do in a test like this. And in regards to the sponsor being a integrated part of the video, it might feel less 'icky' if presented as "here are 2 Browsers and here are the same 2 Browsers with these 2(or whatever number plugins)". Although that gets cumbersome pretty fast. EDIT: Perhaps a test of antimalware browser plugins separately

Thanks, this video feels like you are trying to trick people into watching an advert

@@qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqw Yeah, biggest reason I tuned out. I don't mind sponsors since people have to make their money, but adding it like this felt deceitful, almost like a scam in it of itself. Glad he addressed it on a comment.

uMatrix is better but you need to learn how to use it yourself. Interesting about Brave which I use, Kaspersky blocks a few Brave misses.

Take us for a spin and see our capabilities for yourself :)

@@Guardiosecurity Yeah, but first pay! No thx.

I use pihole, do you think that would be sufficient?

@@robertcartman3502 Free trial, is free

@@Guardiosecurityhow about instead you actually give us a free version and improve it after that

We'd like to see that too!

Guardio obviously, cos it's his sponsor :)

I'll get a Gardio subscription

@@markgutierez9922 😁

​​@@Guardiosecurity Guardio guys, your marketing is what's funny to me. You can't just have a priced product and think everyone wants to pay for it. Other Developers offer trial, even if it's just like 7 or 14 or 30 days for the general public to consider if they like the product, unless VPN companies,you know

Wouldn’t be the first time a security company had a data breach if it happened too.

@@timehunter9467 I totally agree, one fatal example is LastPass

This is a phishing test, not a privacy test, that is a whole different question. A lot of products (including Windows Defender/Smart Screen) send your data in order to determine if a site/file is safe or malicious.

@@pcsecuritychannel this a valid point, but I don't see why we can't have both privacy and security in this case, why don't guardio do the same approach as something like uBlock origin and implement a local list of malicious phishing links and do the look up locally, It won't just be more private it will also be faster, if you notice it loads the malicious site for a split second then it redirects you to their custom page.

@@0xshaheen the best way to get an answer about that is to ask the people in-charge of guardio. we could have another sponsored ad where PC Security interview those peoples using the most helpful questions in the comments like yours

Clever, and so true 👍😅

Firefox uses Google Safe Browsing

Oh

​@@pcsecuritychannel Crossover episode

No one has used Firefox for almost 20 years

@@bosyogurtlight I use it daily. Love me some FF!

​@user Hey we don't collect data, and you can be sure Leo picked us as he checked us out to learn we are legit, we have researches that were published on Fox News, Washington post, and we are trying to make the web safer for our users.

How is it shady?

Yeah I just saw that from reddit, why would he promote that, so disappointing. It makes me doubt everything on this channel now...

@@cherrypoutines6269 how is it shady?

@@Guardiosecurity Do you mean the Brave Leo?

I never promised it as a miracle cure. I used it as a reference when doing a live phishing test and it did well. I even showed the source so people can cross verify the results for themselves. Deceptive would have been if I preselected links or used different links for Guardio and Edge/Chrome. This is a fully transparent video.

Inputting info in phishing sites gives the attacker the information you put in, it doesn’t download malware. And you are correct when you say JS code can download things. However even when it tries to, browsers will typically show files that are downloaded. Some browsers have other sorts of protecting like scanning the download and looking inside the code and comparing it to malware in their database when you download anything. So typically you would need to execute a file to get malware because having someone see a download message when they did nothing would likely make the user get suspicious and not fall for the scam or download the file. Browsers also sometimes isolate the tabs from your machine to mitigate the effects if a script were to run and try to infect your system.

by sometimes I mean some browsers like Chrome.

It's not hidden at all it's just one big shitty advert

I no longer recommend malwarebytes, I had the business version that can monitor 10 of the pc via the web portal, it caught nothing for the past 12 months, could you believe that? Edit- I also have NEXTDNS agent installed on those 10 PCs.

Adguard + Malwarebytes helps tremendously.

Yup, good take, I should have left it out of the scoreboard. I could have put in total instead but it is hard to realize before seeing people's reaction.

@@pcsecuritychannel oh yeah, I completely get that. and on yt I imagine it's stressful to consider completely changing it up since that could affect views and all that

@@TheGreyLineMatters commom man, "try to make money" like a job?? How is that Bad or shamefull? And why are you so hurt about it??

Mullvad browser

Why would the sponsor want a competitor in the video they paid for? This is a low effort sponsored video. Why are the other Chromium based browsers not included? - I suspect because the extension is only available in Edge and Chrome.

⁠Other chromium based browsers aren’t included because like he stated, they usually run on the default chromium protection (which is what chrome uses I believe correct me if im wrong).

@@Shocker99 honestly guard io is massively expensive not even close to worth it for 15 dollars a month they charge so much because they spend so much on marketing

Probably not because they don't sponsor the channel xD

I like the combination of Adguard/Ublock + Malwarebytes.

Yeah, that's my setup too. Ublock + Malwarebytes.

@@nine958 same but i tacked on guard io free because why not

How is it not a fair comparison between Edge and Chrome which is the title of the video?

I listened to the video over from the beginning 3 times an not once did he say chrome and edge had google chromes advanced protection on! Plus edge uses defenders smart screen an chrome does not!

@@pcsecuritychannel I didn't say it was an unfair comparison between Chrome and Edge, I said based on my personal opinion that I think the comparison between Chrome and Edge - without advanced protection - and Guardio with (I assume) advanced protection is unfair. If you were only comparing Edge to Chrome, I'd think that was great. But the Guardio thing, makes it seem like a sponsored placement and I just don't think that fits. The title would fit better with "Edge vs Chrome vs Guardio" for example. But this way, you click on the video and don't expect Guardio to be tested.

@@billyguthrie3176 Thats not what I said. Edge do have advanced protection optional as well. I am aware that Edge does not use Google's. I never said that.

@@Timeox2k It wasn't meant to be a test against Guardio nor is that the title of the video. It was supposed to be a comparison with Chrome and Edge, but instead of doing the standard sponsor segments, I decided to use Guardio as a control (cause it also shows if anybody blocks these links).

I'm pretty sure he could do more browser vs about pishings sites

Like he said, browsers that are Chromium based (like Brave) usually use the same protection engine as Chrome. This is proven multiple times when you can see the block message by Brave before the Guardio alert and then chrome blocks it too.

i did a browseraudit test with both chrome and brave and i got the same exact result

with both using ublock origin

An extension he added to Brave & probably the sponsor of the video.

And no, it's not an ad blocker as far as I know. It prevents you from visiting malicious websites, I suppose.

I think Ublock origin plus privacy badger is enough.

Yes, brave and guardio is free, I suggest adding uBlock origin adblock to brave

Switch to linux

I use edge with McAfee webadvisor,ublock origin and ad block that's it more than enough

This is why I use Firefox + Qwant instead of Chrome + Google

Not sure if you understand what phishing is...

Yes I do, I already recieved + deleted phishing emails several times so I DO know what it is. It's an attacker trying to steal credentials from a user

@@Yorkfield2008FR Comment was for op. How is Edge a phishing instrument?

Since ChatGPT is a privacy issue along with edge, Microsoft just doesnt respect user space/privacy. Otherwise, i cant say that edge is a phisher, since I dont use/rarely use it so yea...

Firefox is going to use the same Google filters, as Chrome. That's an IF the option is enabled by default... which I can't recall.

​​​@@madness1931They are all quite similar out of the box when you speak in simple terms of blocking links. My point is more that Firefox is a fully open source piece of software that, when paired with an ad blocker and a cross site script blocker, is by far the best choice in terms of overall security. Security through obscurity is essentially all that Edge and Chrome have going for them, which is not a very strong position. Plus you have to entrust your data to Microsoft and Google with Edge and Chrome, which is a massive mistake in my opinion, as they both are in the business of selling consumer data.

​@@madness1931Personally I use uBlock Origin and Disconnect. With those tools and some common sense, always running anti-virus software is essentially a thing of the past.

@@Retalak2 As long as the only vector to your computer is the internet. Any other media introduced like USB drives then it's still game on.

​@@LV4EVRThat's true, but I only connect drives that I personally use exclusively on my own machines, which all have this setup. So not really a problem.

Least obvious Linux ad

Yes

Lol 😂. Not even better than brave.

@@nightking8490 you can modify Firefox to be better than Brave, Brave is built on Firebox after all

@@mysteryY2K Brave isn't built on FF. It's Chromium based.

i did not know that, thanks @@datastream3331

Firefox

Edge is chromium based however, Edge uses Microsoft Defender Smartscreen to block malicious pages as well as the same security features built in to Chromium. Brave probably uses the same Google Safe Browsing because it blocked the same pages as shown in the video.

Interesting, it just looked like that to me, I don't know the language obviously.

@@pcsecuritychannel Glad to inform :) I'm Brazilian. I love your content. Keep it going.

As a check to see if anything blocks those links.

yes, if you got filter for such

McAfee sucks dude. Even bitdefender free would be better than windows defender and McAfee paid

Windows defender >> mcafee

Also if you can afford subscribtions, go buy one for eset internet security, its really good as well

Idk I got 1 year free subscription with my laptop and haven't had any issues but since this many people are telling I will switch to defender

Uninstall mcafee if you can. A lot of times mcafee cannot be uninstalled

phishing is social engineering you have to type in the stuff yourself

@@mintypot That is assuming the website doesn't have malware or viruses too, just because the video is testing phishing doesn't mean thats all those websites contain or any other website guardio eventually blocks

@pokeepoof probably because the malware doesnt load first and when it loads it gets detected and guardio cuts off the connection

What is malex

Yea, opening a bunch of links would be much easier by automation, even through an extension (then looking at the tab title for a result). Only limit I can think of is resource usage, it will take a while to load multiple tabs at the same time unless there is a delay in between opening each tab.

Because they're making a video to show visually for viewers.

Cause it was very difficult to automate that for phishing links cause you need to verify if it is live and what it actually does.

@@pcsecuritychannel Ah yes that's right - they do go down very fast

This guy knows what's up

🙌

Would love to hear your feedback

What hub exactly 🤔

@@TheGreyLineMatters You sick individual!! What is wrong with your mind?

Can You recommend some?

Which ones?

1º Avast Online Security & Privacy, 2° TrafficLight - Bitdefender, 3º Malwarebytes browser guard, 4º Norton Safe Web, 5º Emisoft Browser security, 6º Avira Broser Safety (Not recommended)

Not to you. But some people don’t have anti-malware programs installed that will block phishing attempts without needing to install an extension which is easy, but I don’t know if grandma knows how.

Librewolf would behave the same as Firefox, with Google safe browsing turned off. Librewolf would (by default) disable the Google filter list, because they want as few pings to both Mozilla and Google, as possible... because privacy.

@@madness1931 True, its based on firefox.

@@madness1931 yes but when talking "safest browser" we also have to take security into account. Firefox is much much more secure than Chrome or Edge

Vs opera plz

Yes

ofc

Like I explained in the video, brave would do the same as chrome as it is using the same filters. You can even see it if you observe the test and see when the red warnings pop up. That’s why I used Guardio as a control.

Just look at the previous video, he already shows how to block malicious IP addresses using Windows firewall

@@lenkarin7530 I just wish there may be some automated tools which can help me to block it. Not an IT expert so not used to commands and all.

@@TheGreyLineMatters I dont rely on defender but blocking malicious ip was amazing.

What would you expect to test in a browser security video? Look through severity of past vulnerabilities, try to exploit it with cross site scripting? Just curious as to what you were expecting.

Is guardio spyware?

I think it would be pretty much the same.

If your antivirus is effecting performance in game that much than you need to find a better Anti Virus. I currently use Malwarebytes but have also used Sophos in the past and neither AV effected in game performance unless I told it to do a full scan using their built in AI to find malware that isn't publicly identified yet.

Nextdns?

@@ownmicelio?