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 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 ...

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 ...

Rogue Security Software, also known as Scareware, is software that appears to be beneficial from a security perspective but provides limited or no security, generates erroneous or misleading ...

LayerX adds that the scareware campaign previously targeted Windows users through the same clever tricks. But the hacker behind the attack pivoted to Macs after Microsoft in February introduced an ...

and Firefox that block scareware. As the hackers were out of luck on Windows, they appear to have turned to macOS. Macs are often said to be safe from hackers, which means some users may let their ...

The most interesting part of the campaign is the techniques used to only deliver the scareware payload to target computers, and avoid detection by automated scanners. It seems that around the time ...

According to security vendor LayerX, the "scareware" campaign has been hosted on malicious sites designed to resemble the official domains of major companies. An unsuspecting victim can encounter ...