Protect your computer in the background (desktop app)
The desktop app keeps working from the tray: it shows the Blocked page instead of blocked and dangerous sites in any browser and checks every browser extension and new program.
Steps
Install the Passkey-X desktop app and sign in. It starts with your computer and keeps running in the tray (menu bar on a Mac) even when the vault is locked.
Browser protection (Windows and macOS): when a site in the Passkey-X threat database, your organization's block list or your own blocked sites is opened in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Firefox or another browser, the tab shows the Passkey-X Blocked page instead, with a Request unblock button (your administrator decides about their blocked sites, the Passkey-X team about scams and phishing). Nothing is blocked before you have signed in.
Extensions and programs: a new browser extension is noticed within a minute and a new program within 15 minutes. Harmful ones, ones your organization doesn't allow, and extensions added outside the browser's store raise an alert.
See everything in This computer › Device health, including every extension in every browser profile. Choose Report as harmful if something looks wrong; the Passkey-X team reviews it for everyone.
Turn each protection on or off in This computer › Settings. Your organization may require some of them.
Good to know
- Lists of sites, extensions and programs stay on your computer. Only hashes are compared with the Passkey-X database, and your organization sees only problems.
- If an extension comes back after you remove it, another program installed it: uninstall that program and run a malware scan.