Security News > 2020 > November > Zoom: These new features will prevent trolls and meeting-crashers
Zoom hosts can now pause a meeting while they remove a disruptive participant, and a new web-scanning tool will seek out compromised meeting links.
Zoom has introduced new security measures to let hosts remove disruptive or unauthorized meeting participants and report them to Zoom administrators, alongside other tools to keep trolls at bay.
In these instances, someone who had gotten hold of a Zoom meeting ID - after seeing it posted on social media or shared in a screenshot, for example - could quite easily join and disrupt a meeting.
It has now taken further action to prevent unwanted trolls: the company has launched an 'At-Risk Meeting Notifier', that scans social media, forums and other websites for Zoom meeting links that have been shared publicly.
Zoom points out that one of the best ways to prevent Zoom-bombing is also the most obvious: namely, to never share a meeting ID or passcode on social media, or any other public site for that matter.