Chris Messina

Web3 Antivirus for Chrome - Take back your safety in Web3

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Web3 Antivirus is a Chrome and Brave extension that ensures your safety and provides confidence in the wild world for web3 by auditing transactions before you sign and warning you about any potential risks and scams. đź”’

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Alex Dulub
Greetings Product Hunt community! 👋 I'm Alex, the founder of Web3 Antivirus. I am excited to launch Web3 Antivirus (W3A) to keep your assets safe from fraud in the brave new web3 world. There is enormous potential in web3, but it is far from safe and secure. Our friends have lost fortunes to web3 scams: smart contract vulnerabilities, protocol infrastructure hacks, social engineering, phishing, and more. As our team of blockchain experts (60 years of combined experience!) set about addressing these threats, we realized that these situations shouldn’t have happened in the first place. That’s why we put all of our knowledge and expertise in Web3 Antivirus — the first open source browser extension to proactively protect you from the most virulent threats in web3. 🛡 Here’s how Web3 Antivirus protects you: - Smart contract analysis - Transaction emulation - Phishing detection W3A activates when you are about to sign a transaction. The extension pauses the transaction execution briefly to run it through our powerful auditing algorithm and simulates the result of the transaction. Any malicious logic, suspicious functions, compromising permissions, lack of creator verification, or low transaction volume will be reported as potential risks within seconds. 🚦 W3A returns a risk score so you can make your own decision. There’s more: W3A evaluates domains using AI similarity validation, identifies suspicious content and hard-coded logic (signs of potential fraud), and alerts you if you’ve stumbled upon a known phishing or untrustworthy site. W3A needs zero setup and works out of the box with MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, and BitKeep Wallet. And, we’re adding more wallets regularly. W3A supports Ethereum, with BNB and Solana support coming soon. 🔍Open source means transparency Web3 Antivirus is open-source because we value transparency. You can visit our GitHub repo https://github.com/web3-antiviru..., check the code, build a copy, and make sure that the extension operates precisely as described. W3A will also never ask for access to your wallets, secret keys, assets, or any sensitive data. 💭 We're proud of our work and would love your feedback! And, to celebrate our launch, we’re created 150 free-to-mint limited edition Product Hunt Early Adopter NFTs! NFT holders will get three months premium free when we release it, which is a token of our appreciation for supporting us here. More details in the gallery! Thank you @chrismessina for hunting us!
Uladzimir Yankovich
@chrismessina @alex_dulub Oh, there's even a browser extension. Cool!
Alex Dulub
@yankovichv Thanks! W3A works with Chrome and Brave, and the extension for FireFox is underway.
Chris Messina
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This is super useful — I talked to @alex_dulub about this extension and instantly installed it. I ended up minting an NFT for this cool project called After The Creator Economy and the extension popped up just as I was about to complete my transaction, warning me about a few suspicious looking choices in the smart contract. I would never be able to get that level of analysis — that quickly — while minting an NFT otherwise! The Web3 Antivirus extension provides a level of reassurance that Web3 desperately needs!
Alex Dulub
@chrismessina Thank you for your support and glad to hear you've liked W3A in action! Scams get increasingly inventive, we can all be taken off guard. The extension is here to bring the security back and up 🛡
Elena Albright
Congrats on the launch! Looks just like what we need in Web3. I'll try it out. Good luck with the product, guys!
Alex Dulub
@elena_alehno Huge thanks. Share your thoughts once you've tried the extension!
Marina Bachmat
What do I think about Web3 Antivirus? - I think it's a perfect, modern and recent solution to be used during the transaction and payment processing
Alex Dulub
@marina_bachmat Thank you for your support! Have you tried the solution yet? Thought it'd be helpful to mention: Web3 Antivirus never asks and won't have access to your wallet, assets, or seed phrase. So it's not involved in payment processing per se, but it's triggered when you're about to sign a transaction and helps you decide if it's safe to proceed or not.
Scott Williams
@alex_dulub Congrats on your launch. I haven't checked it out in detail yet but how does it differ from Fire or Pocket Universe? At first glance, the UI looks much better and the risk score is nice and isn't something I've seen before.
Alex Dulub
Hi @scottwwilliams , thank you for your support and the excellent question. Fire app copies what you are signing without deep analysis, while we provide "Why" and the risks. PocketUniverse doesn't proceed with deep investigation either. We would be happy if you try our premium features once they are live with our free NFT that can be minted at https://mint.web3antivirus.io/.
Scott Williams
@alex_dulub Thanks for the quick and detailed response. I had already downloaded the extension but missed the "mint" option until you noted it. Just minted it and will look forward to trying out the premium version when it's available. After a few minutes with it - the deep analysis component is really nice and easy to understand. Kudos!
Alex Dulub
@scottwwilliams Thanks we will indeed appreciate the feedback and a project review!
Vishal Godhwani from Brew Money
Hey Alex, this is a much-needed product. A lot of times we tend to sign a transaction without paying much attention to the content of the contract. The parameters that you are testing the contract for completely make sense. Thank you for creating this. Found this on Smoothie yesterday. Good luck
Alex Dulub
@vishal_godhwani Thanks for your support! Indeed, it's often hard to understand what exactly we're signing with our wallets without reading the contract code. We're here to help with that. Share your thoughts once you try W3A out!
Ivan Tsikota
Hi @alex_dulub , congrats on the launch to you and the team! W3A is a great and much needed product! Definitely gonna use it. Good luck!
Alex Dulub
@ivan_tsikota Thanks a lot! We're in to make web3 safer for all and will appreciate your thoughts đź’ˇ
Anna Alekseeva
Thanks for your idea! Definitely I like it and will use. It is a new level of security. Congratulations!
Alex Dulub
@annkkie always welcome! Feel free to share your experience and thoughts about Web3 Antivirus, we're here for them!
Aakash Singh
Going to try this out! Congrats!
Binay Singh
Nice one guys! Congratulations!
Xenia Volnistaya
Web3 definitely needs more security! Looks awesome, congrats!
Alex Dulub
@ksunhrun Glad you liked it!
Benjamin Baker
That is great! exactly what we needed! 🙌
Alex Dulub
@benjamin_cbaker Thanks a lot, glad you took our solution to your liking! đź‘‹
Valeria
I usually have lots of worries when exploring web3 domain because of how many scams I can face. Will definitely try you solution out, congrats on the launch!
Alex Dulub
@_valeria_ Thank you for support! Hope it makes your web3 experience a lot more comfortable - that's exactly why we're building W3A
John D
With the growing number of scams happening around crypto and NFTs, your app may give us a breath of fresh air. I'll keep my fingers crossed 🤞
Alex Dulub
@jdaderkin Appreciate your attention to our solution! Please try it out and share your thoughts đź‘‹
Daria Flack
Congrats, guys! The functionality seems to be really useful. Can't wait to try it out, especially considering the situation with fraud and scams in web3.
Alex Dulub
@daria_flack Thanks for your kind words! Can't wait to hear your feedback
Ayesha Awan
Great job on the launch of Web3 Antivirus! This will ensure safety and confidence in the web3 world!
Olga Borisevich
Great news! Feels like it will be one of the staple solutions of mine. Great job, guys!
Tanya Jeon
Well, now it seems like a decent solution to my constant worries about encountering some tricky web3 scams. Congrats on the launch!
Alex Dulub
@sdkmn Thanks a lot!
Alex Sky
Incredibly useful and very necessary tool in the present market conditions where hacking and fraud are becoming the normal way of doing things. Sometimes even skilled users can lose caution because of simple tiredness and can accidentally sign the wrong transaction. If you are new to the market this tool will be very helpful and will prevent you from losing funds. Thanks!
Alex Dulub
@alex_sky1 Thank you for sharing your user experience, it is very important for us to improve!