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Hi, I'm a Malwarebytes registered user. I bought the cd long ago because I love the idea of supporting honest companies that produce quality products such as this with new updates being introduced at a constant rate. I have been using this amazing software for many years now but still don't know how to utilize all of its features. I would like to know how to use Malwarebytes to block ip addresses and websites that are dangerous to my computer's health.

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As long as you have MBAM premium installed, enabling Malicious Website Protection from Settings --> Detection and Protection --> Malicious Website Protection and tick the Enabled radio button, it is on.

That's not exactly what I meant. I want to know if I can input domain names of websites or ip addresses that are dangerous to block them that way.

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I do not believe that currently there is a way to add your own sites to the block list.

Is there a software outside of Malwarebytes that I can use instead to block sites or ip addresses? How about a Firefox addon that actually works because some of the ones I've used to block sites or ip's haven't really worked.

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The easiest way to do so would be to use your built in hosts files for them and redirect them to 127.0.0.1

 

Truth be told, though, I'v rarely found a site that MBAM, WoT and my ISP haven't already marked as bad.  And I use Firefox primarily for browsing, with JavaScript disabled b default on all pages via NoScript, until I deterine it is safe, all third-party requests blocked via RequestPolicy, and advertising, beacons, and Analytics blocked via Ghostery until, again, I've determined they are safe, and finally cookies blocked globally except those I allow via Cookie Monster.

 

Plus, with today's methodology of hosting companies spreading multiple domains over a single IP address, blocking a single IP may block one malicious domain but countless  non-malicious domains in the process.

 

That's why I let the experts handle the blocking through MBAM and WoT and my ISP.

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20 minutes ago, matthewosbeta said:

I am running MalwareBytes Premium if you go to the tab Web Exclusions there you can add a process and IP or a link for a website for MalwareBytes to block

Whoa. NO! Adding an exclusion preempts MBAM scanning protection. It is for false positives primarily. To UNblock.

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