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 ...

Understandably, Microsoft wants to fight this — and it’s doing so with a new Scareware Blocker feature in Edge, which was first announced in November at the 2024 Ignite conference.

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Microsoft is rolling out its new Edge scareware blocker to users to who participate in the preview program, bringing a new tool to the fight against scams. Skip to content.

By using AI, Edge can learn and adapt to new scareware tactics in real time, providing a more robust layer of protection. In the meanwhile, ...

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 ...

Activating scareware blocker. Image Credits:Microsoft This adds an additional level of security to what exists within the likes of Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, which already looks for suspicious ...