PhishGuard

PhishGuard is a way for you to make sure you know what you're clicking on! This extension aims to prevent email phishing attacks…
What is PhishGuard?
PhishGuard is a Chrome extension that aims to prevent email phishing attacks. It verifies clickable links and highlights, bolds, and provides hover-over information for links that lead to different locations than advertised. Supports Gmail and Outlook/Hotmail.

Extension stats

Users: 41 ▲ 5
Rating: 5.00 (1)
Version: 0.1 (Last updated: 2017-11-05)
Creation date: 2017-11-05
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 56.19K

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

PhishGuard is a way for you to make sure you know what you're clicking on!

This extension aims to prevent email phishing attacks by telling you where links really lead. The way it works if it detects a clickable link and the location it leads to is somewhere different from what is advertised, it will highlight it red, bold it, and when you hover over the link, it will tell you where it really leads!

Currently, the extension supports both gmail and outlook/hotmail.

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/D4stiny/PhishGuard

Icons made by Smashicons from www.flaticon.com is licensed by CC 3.0 BY Gmail logo by cosmcala from www.devianart.com Outlook logo by Microsoft

Extension safety

Risk impact

PhishGuard requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

PhishGuard has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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