DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused web browser and search engine, has expanded the scope of its Scam Blocker tool. In addition ...

After the scareware is thwarted, you can report the malicious site to Microsoft. Here's how it all works. How Microsoft Edge's scareware blocker works.

DuckDuckGo isn't the absolute best privacy-focused browser, it is an excellent alternative to Chrome that doesn't have the ...

The DuckDuckGo web browser has expanded its built-in Scam Blocker tool to protect against a broader range of online scams, ...

How does Scareware Blocker work? Using a local machine learning model, Edge compares full-screen pages with thousands of past scams that were submitted by Microsoft’s scam-fighting community.

Scareware works by using classic social engineering techniques of the sort we often observe in phishing messages. They try to rush the victim into making a decision they’ll regret by giving ...

Microsoft is releasing a preview of a new feature for its Edge browser that will help block scareware. This feature is ...

Scareware blocker uses a machine learning model that runs on the local computer,” explains the Microsoft Edge team in a blog post. “The model uses computer vision to compare full screen ...

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 ...

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 has started testing a new "scareware blocker" feature for the Edge web browser on Windows PCs, which uses machine learning (ML) to detect tech support scams. Scareware scams (also known ...

Microsoft announced its new scareware blocker at the 2024 Ignite conference a few months ago and now it’s ready for users to try out. This preview is open to everyone who uses Edge; you just ...