A new security feature for Microsoft Edge is now available for preview, helping people overcome scareware scams.

or mouse to prevent you from taking control. Microsoft already offers its Defender SmartScreen tool, which uses collective knowledge to stop scareware and other threats. However, SmartScreen won't ...

A scareware blocker is a security tool, often integrated into web browsers, designed to prevent users from falling victim to ...

Microsoft Edge's latest update introduces a security feature to combat scams that defraud victims of nearly a billion dollars ...

Scareware is a type of malware that relies on scare tactics to get you to lower your guard and unknowingly install malware or give away sensitive personal data before you realize you’re being ...

Microsoft has started testing a new "scareware blocker" feature for the Edge web browser on Windows PCs, which uses machine ...

Microsoft Edge is adding a scareware blocker to prevent users from falling for fake malware alerts. Scareware can trick less tech-savvy users into financial or privacy risks, making this feature ...

The scareware blocker will even detect new and emerging scams and let you report them to Microsoft. The scareware blocker will even detect new and emerging scams and let you report them to Microsoft.

Microsoft this week announced that its scareware blocker, which aims to identify potential scam sites and messages, is now in public preview. The feature, which was first announced in November at ...

Microsoft is rolling out a new tool dubbed “scareware blocker,” which uses machine learning and computer vision to identify a very pervasive type of online scam. “Scareware” has blighted ...

Microsoft has begun testing a new "scareware blocker" for Edge on Windows PCs. The feature uses machine learning to detect tech support scams. It was introduced at the 2024 Ignite conference in ...