Microsoft Edge’s scareware blocker is now turned on for everyone. A quick look at what this change means and how you can control it.

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 for ...

Malicious actors have a variety of techniques to try and ensnare victims online, one of which is scareware. It entails displaying web pages designed to convince a user that their system has been ...

Microsoft is introducing a new scareware sensor for the Microsoft Edge web browser, which helps detect scam pages more ...

Updates, notifications, messages, all come at us in a constant stream. While many of these digital nudges are welcome, some are not. In particular, notification spam can be a nuisance, misleading, and ...

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 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 the web ...

Microsoft is planning to introduce a new Edge security feature that will protect users against malicious extensions sideloaded into the web browser. Edge enables developers to install extensions ...