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 testing a new "scareware blocker" feature for the Edge web browser on Windows PCs, which uses machine learning (ML) to detect tech support scams.

Microsoft is adding a new scareware blocker to its Edge browser. It uses a local machine learning model to detect new and emerging scams. The scareware blocker is in preview now ...

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.

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 ...

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.

How Microsoft Edge's scareware blocker works. Many scareware sites run the infamous tech support scam. Clicking a link or notification on a page displays a warning alerting you that your computer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...