As described in a Microsoft blog post on Monday, Edge's Scareware blocker works by using computer vision to compare a scareware site that tries to open full-screen with thousands of sample scams.

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.

Users who would like to try out the scareware blocker can do so by making sure that previews are allowed and that Edge is ...

Microsoft Edge has a new feature known as "Scareware Blocker" that helps you block (primarily) tech support online scams. In this guide, I'll help you understand and enable the feature on Windows 11.

Microsoft has started rolling out a new scareware blocker in its Edge browser this week. The AI-powered feature runs on Windows PCs and can identify and block existing scams, ...

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 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 Defender and Edge Security settings are open on a PC monitor. Alan Truly / Digital Trends Microsoft announced its new scareware blocker at the 2024 Ignite conference a few months ago and ...

An example of scareware (left), and then Microsoft Edge’s coming ability to quarantine such scam sites (right). Scareware protection will first become available to organizations, who must guard ...

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 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, ...

Users who would like to try out the scareware blocker can do so by making sure that previews are allowed and that Edge is fully up-to-date. You can check this by clicking the three dot icon at the ...