Anti-Phishing
Phishing describes a criminal activity involving manipulating users into providing confidential information on a website that appears genuine but is not. This type of manipulation is known as social engineering. Phishing is often used to gain access to sensitive data such as bank account numbers, payment card numbers, PINs or usernames, and passwords.
Anti-Phishing in ESET Mobile Security protects against websites deemed malicious or dangerous.
We recommend that you keep Anti-Phishing enabled. When enabled, all potential phishing attacks coming from websites or domains listed in the ESET malware database will be blocked, and a warning notification will be displayed informing you of the attempted attack.
Application protection protects you from accessing fraudulent sites and revealing sensitive information in browsers and other applications. Anti-Phishing integrates with popular web browsers and social network apps available on Android OS. Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Edge and other popular browsers have Full support of anti-phishing features. For browsers and applications that are fully supported, the entire website you visit is scanned for harmful content, including its sub-pages. Browsers and applications that are not common might have Limited support because they do not provide sufficient integration for Anti-Phishing. Limited support means that only the top-level domain is scanned. For instance if you visit "example.com", only that page is scanned, not its sub-pages such as "example.com/about". To fully utilize the Anti-Phishing functionality, we recommend not using unsupported web browsers.
Link Scanner provides additional protection against harmful links, ensuring you only visit safe ones. Every link you open is checked for scams and harmful or unwanted content, stopping you from visiting such links. When setting up link scanner, set ESET Mobile Security as your default browser. This allows us to check the links you try to open before they load. It won't change your usual browser for everyday internet use, so you can keep using it as you normally do.
SMS protection defends you against messages containing malicious links.
Notification protection guards you against malicious links received in notifications (before opening the link).
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For proper Anti-Phishing integration with web browsers and applications, we recommend using Android 8 (Oreo) or later. |
Improve functionality—ESET Mobile Security warns you if Anti-Phishing protection requires additional permissions to be granted by the Android OS. Tap Allow to open the system's Accessibility settings and consider the available options to support more browsers and enable protection when browsing in private (incognito) mode. If you do not want this issue to be reported as a problem, tap Ignore this issue (not recommended).
To disable the Anti-Phishing, tap the three dots 
in the Anti-Phishing section, and tap Disable.
Accessibility permission on ESET Mobile Security installed from the .APK file on Android 13 and later
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Note For security reasons, Android 13 and later restricts accessibility permission to apps installed from .apk files to prevent uninformed access to these permissions. How ESET Mobile Security uses this permission We use this permission to access the URLs of websites you visit. We analyze these websites for malicious intent, such as phishing, malware or other dangerous activities. The website is blocked when a threat is detected to protect your sensitive data. Data accessed via accessibility permission are not shared with any third parties. |
To solve the accessibility issue:
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Allow accessibility permission For the illustrated instructions, read our Knowledgebase article (it may only be available in English). |
1.Open Settings > Accessibility > Downloaded apps, and check if ESET Mobile Security is available.
2.Tap the ESET Mobile Security app, and the Restricted setting dialog opens.
3.Tap OK.
4.Go to Settings > Apps > ESET Mobile Security to open the App info.
5.Tap the three-dot menu icon in the upper right corner > Allow restricted settings.
Restricted settings are now allowed, and you can start using the application securely.
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Anti-Phishing on Samsung DeX Anti-Phishing is not supported on devices connected to the Samsung DeX station. |
Protected Browsers
•Chrome
•Chrome Beta
•Firefox
•Firefox Beta
•Opera
•Opera Beta
•Opera Mini
•Opera Mini Beta
•Opera TV browser
•Samsung Internet
•Mint
•Yandex browser
•DuckDuckGo (in ESET Mobile Security version 6.1 and later)
•Kiwi browser
•Edge
•Silk in Amazon devices
•Mi browser
•Xiaomi Mi browser
•Vewd in Android TV
Protected social network apps
•Facebook Lite
•Messenger
•Messenger Lite
•Social network apps that use protected browser components for web view are also protected.