My antivirus or malware protection is blocking me from accessing Tor Browser.
Most antivirus or malware protection allows the user to "allowlist" certain processes that would otherwise be blocked.
Some antivirus software will pop up malware and/or vulnerability warnings when Tor Browser is launched. If you downloaded Tor Browser from our main website or used GetTor, and verified it, these are false positives and you have nothing to worry about. Some antiviruses consider that files that have not been seen by a lot of users as suspicious. To make sure that the Tor program you download is the one we have created and has not been modified by some attacker, you can verify Tor Browser's signature. You may also want to permit certain processes to prevent antiviruses from blocking access to Tor Browser.
Allowing Tor Browser processes
Please open your antivirus or malware protection software and look in the settings for an "allowlist" or something similar. Next, include the following processes:
- For Windows
- firefox.exe
- tor.exe
- lyrebird.exe
- For macOS
- TorBrowser
- tor.real
- lyrebird Finally, restart Tor Browser. This should fix the issues you're experiencing. Please note that some antivirus clients, like Kaspersky, may also be blocking Tor at the firewall level.