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What's New in PhishGuard
1.5
October 18, 2026
More accurate about which site you're actually on. Pages hosted on site builders and free hosting are now judged on their own merits instead of inheriting the hosting platform's reputation — this was a significant source of missed warnings. Fixed false alerts on crypto-related sites. A generic keyword match used to flag any page that merely mentioned "crypto" — including legitimate exchanges and news sites — as a scam. Detection now looks for actual wallet-drainer language (requests for a seed phrase, recovery phrase or private key) instead of the topic itself. Catches impersonation. If a page calls itself a bank, wallet or well-known service but isn't served from that company's domain, you'll be told — including when the page is in a language other than English. Warnings appear on their own. Previously a warning could be missed unless you opened the extension. It now shows reliably as you browse. Clearer results. The figure shown next to a verdict used to look like a safety score when it actually measured how much PhishGuard had been able to check. You now see how many checks completed, described in words. Faster. Checks run at the same time rather than one after another, each with a strict time limit, so one slow lookup no longer holds up the result. Wider coverage. Registration dates are now available for several hundred more domain endings, including the inexpensive ones phishing sites favor. Fixed several cases where a suspicious site was reported as safe, including pages on free hosting, sites that redirect elsewhere, and newly registered domains between one week and one year old.
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