Microsoft has started rolling out a new scareware blocker in its Edge browser this week. The AI-powered feature runs on ...

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 ...

Microsoft Edge 133 is now rolling out globally, and it ships with several improvements, including a new scareware blocker ...

You’re browsing the web when suddenly your screen turns red. A warning flashes: “Your computer is infected! Call support immediately!” Maybe there’s a blaring alarm or a robotic voice telling you to ...

Microsoft Edge's Scareware blocker is a local AI model designed to help users avoid annoying and dangerous full screen ...

A new security feature for Microsoft Edge is now available for preview, helping people overcome scareware scams.

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 ...

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. According ...

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 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.

With its Edge browser,   Microsoft has begun implementing a new scareware filter. Thanks to a local machine learning model, ...