Scams often use fear to trick people—and of such schemes, scareware is extremely obvious about this tactic. On a malicious website, pop-up windows wrest control of your screen, blaring alarms that ...

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 ...

Microsoft is now providing a scareware blocker in its Edge web browser, which is available as an early preview feature. The scareware blocker works alongside Defender SmartScreen, which protects ...

Microsoft Edge 133 is now rolling out globally, and it ships with several improvements, including a new scareware blocker feature. In addition, Microsoft is updating the backend of the Downloads ...

Microsoft Edge has security feature called Scareware Blocker. It is designed to protect users from deceptive or scam websites that use scare tactics to make them download malicious software or pay ...

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Microsoft is sprucing up Edge with a few new features to help you better manage and use the browser, especially in the workplace. Announced at Microsoft Build 2025 on Monday are three new skills ...