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 ...

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 has begun testing a new "scareware blocker" for Edge on Windows PCs. The feature uses machine learning to detect tech support scams. It was introduced at the 2024 Ignite conference in ...

The scareware blocker works alongside Defender SmartScreen, which protects users by performing “real-time checks” on newly established websites.