Last updated 7 November 2026
Antilure questions and answers
Antilure is a phishing detector that runs on your own computer. It checks the email you open in Gmail or Outlook, warns you inside the message when it looks like a trick, and explains why, phrase by phrase. Your mail never leaves the computer. Here is every question we are asked, answered in a paragraph.
Privacy
Does Antilure read my email?
Antilure reads each message on your computer, in memory, when you open it. The model on your computer scores it, and the warning is drawn inside your mail client. The message is never uploaded, to us or to anyone else, and the agent never writes the message itself to disk.
What does Antilure send to antilure.com?
Only what you ask for. To activate, the app sends your email address and your acceptance of the terms, then the code you typed, and receives your licence. When you press Check for updates, it asks downloads.antilure.com for latest.json, naming only the app's version. It never sends your mail and sends no telemetry.
What does my company's IT see?
If your company runs an Antilure console, it receives the verdict, the score, the tactics found, the sender's domain and the time for each message checked. It never receives the body, subject or attachments, except when you click Report to IT and confirm, and only where your group's policy allows reports.
Does it work without an internet connection?
Yes. Scanning runs on the computer, so Antilure checks mail with no connection to us. Activation needs one, once, to receive the code by email and then the licence; a computer that cannot reach antilure.com can take a pasted licence file or line instead. Checking for updates needs a connection too.
Using Antilure
Which mail apps does it support?
Gmail and Outlook on the web, through the browser extension for Chrome and Edge, and Outlook on the web and on the desktop, through the Outlook add-in. The agent that runs the model is a per-user installer for Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit, and needs no administrator rights. macOS is next.
Does it work with Outlook on the desktop?
Yes, through the Antilure add-in. In Outlook, open Add-ins, choose Add a custom add-in, then Add from URL, and enter https://addin.antilure.com/manifest.xml. At work, IT can deploy it to everyone from the Microsoft 365 admin center. The add-in opens beside the message and talks only to the agent on your computer.
Will it slow down Gmail or Outlook?
No. A typical check takes under 25 ms on a laptop, because the model is small, about 13 MB, and runs on the computer itself, so nothing waits on a server. On safe mail Antilure draws nothing at all; on risky mail it adds one banner inside the message.
Do I need an account?
Not as an individual. Install Antilure, type your email address in the app, and enter the eight-character code we send to it. Your licence arrives and your free first year starts, with no password and no profile to keep. Companies enrol their computers with their own console instead.
Can I use it at work?
Yes. On your own, install it like anyone else and activate it with your email address. If your company runs an Antilure console, the console receives the verdict, the sender's domain and the time for each message checked, never the mail itself, unless you report a message to IT and confirm.
Price and licence
Is Antilure free?
Personal is free for the first year. Install Antilure, enter your email address and the code we send, and your free year starts, with full detection, the explanation panel and signed model updates. After it, Personal is US$24 a year, renewed from the pricing page. A free year is given once per email address.
What happens after the free year?
Personal is US$24 a year after the free year, renewed from the pricing page. A licence that reaches its end date keeps scanning for 30 days, and the app shows the date to renew by. After you buy, choose Fetch again in the app's Licence settings and the new licence arrives.
Can I buy for my family?
Each person activates Antilure with their own email address and gets their own free year. Personal is per person: a licence belongs to one person, not to a device, and covers that person's mailboxes on up to three devices. After the first year, each person renews their own licence.
How do I get my licence again?
Open the licence page and enter your email address. A one-time code reaches that inbox, and the code shows your licences, ready to download as a file or copy as a line. In the app, Fetch again in the Licence settings does the same with your email address and a code.
Is a pilot free?
Yes. A pilot is the 30-day Team trial plus a call with us. The console runs for 30 days from its first start, with no card and no licence, on your own server, so you can try it on a few laptops before you decide. Book a pilot from the contact page.
For companies
How do I get Antilure for my company?
Start on the For companies page, or book a pilot. The self-hosted console runs in Docker on your own server, free for 30 days from its first start. The agent, the browser extension and the add-in go out with Intune or Group Policy, Chrome and Edge policy, and the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Trust and security
How do I know the model is genuine?
Every model is signed with the Antilure release key. Before it loads a model, the agent checks the signature and the hash of every file in the bundle, and it refuses a model that fails either check, keeping the one it has. The installer's checksum file is signed with the same key.
What is the model, and how big is it?
A model built from scratch for email, not a wrapped cloud AI. It is about 13 MB, ships inside the installer, and a typical check takes under 25 ms on a laptop. It reads the headers, the links, the wording and any hidden text, and each version is evaluated on a sealed test set it never trained on.
How do I verify the installer?
Download SHA256SUMS and SHA256SUMS.minisig from the download page. In PowerShell, run Get-FileHash .\Antilure.msi -Algorithm SHA256 and compare the result with the installer's line in SHA256SUMS. Then check that file with minisign and the release public key, using the command shown on the download page.
Is Antilure open source?
No. The code and the model are proprietary. What you can check is published: the installer and the model bundle are signed, the checksums and the release public key are on the download page, the agent listens only on your own computer, and every request it makes to us is listed in the answer above on what Antilure sends.
How do I report a security issue?
Write to security@antilure.com with what you found, how to reproduce it and the version you tested. We confirm receipt within three business days and keep you informed until the fix ships. If you need to send sensitive detail, ask by email for a way to send it. The security page has the rest.
Still asking?
Write to hello@antilure.com. For how a check works step by step, see How it works; for what is stored and sent, the privacy page.
To weigh Antilure against a spam filter, cloud email security or awareness training, see Compare. For the plans and what they cost, see Pricing, and to try it, download Antilure for Windows.