A Microsoft logo is seen on an office building in New York City, July 28, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Segar (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it was working on bringing ad blocker support through ...

Update March 31: Via email, Microsoft says the slide in yesterday's presentation was misleading: "Microsoft is not building a native ad blocker with Microsoft Edge. What you saw is a reference to the ...

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 UI ...

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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 as ...

Scareware is a type of malware that relies on scare tactics to get you to lower your guard and unknowingly install malware or give away sensitive personal data before you realize you’re being tricked.

Web browser maker Opera made headlines when the company announced that it’s working on a version of its desktop web browser with a built-in ad blocker. The feature just graduated from Opera’s ...

The scareware blocker will even detect new and emerging scams and let you report them to Microsoft. The scareware blocker will even detect new and emerging scams and let you report them to Microsoft.

Microsoft Edge has developed into a robust and effective browser since its debut back in 2015. And that's especially true since it moved to Chromium a couple of years ago. But any browser can use a ...

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