Anti-Phishing protection

Phishing is a criminal activity that uses social engineering (manipulating users to obtain confidential information). Phishing is often used to gain access to sensitive data such as bank account numbers, credit card numbers, PINs, usernames or passwords. Find more information about phishing in the ESET Glossary.

We recommend that you keep anti-phishing enabled (Protections > Web and Email > Anti-Phishing Protection). All potential phishing attacks coming from dangerous websites or domains will be blocked, and a warning notification will be displayed informing you of the attack.

To test whether Anti-Phishing Protection is working, refer to the AMTSO test page.