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 planning to introduce a new Edge security feature that will protect users against malicious extensions ...

The feature relies on a machine language model to identify new scams and alert users about suspicious sites. Microsoft has started rolling out an AI-powered “Scareware Blocker” for its Edge browser on ...

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.

The new feature means Edge will actively look for sideloaded extensions that are found to be malicious. If detected, Edge ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To allow websites to show pop-up windows in Microsoft Edge, you have to disable the browser's pop-up blocker. Here's how you do that on desktop and mobile. Why Disable the Pop-Up Blocker in Edge?

February 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM ET: While Microsoft will end support for Manifest V2 at some point, which will block uBlock Origin, it appears that cutoff date has not occurred yet. The latest version ...