How To Test Firefox Internet Security Settings

Firefox by default comes with anti-phishing and anti-malware filters enabled. What this means is that it will check the visited Internet sites against a database of “bad sites” and automatically block those websites that are deemed as unsafe either due to malware or phishing activity.

To verify if these settings are active in Firefox :

Go to Tools > Options.

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From the Security tab, make sure that the tick marks are enabled for “Block reported attack sites” and “Block reported web forgeries”.

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Now, to confirm if these settings really detect such sites, Mozilla has a test setup for them.

To check if malware sites are being blocked, go to the  test attack webpage.

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To check if websites with web forgery/phishing activities are being blocked, go to the test web forgery webpage.

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If warnings are displayed when each of these webpages are visited, then the security settings for Firefox are working as expected.

Happy and safe surfing.