Microsoft has started rolling a new scarware blocker in its age browser this week. The AI-operated feature runs on Windows PC and can identify and block existing scams, and even a local machine can detect new and emerging people for learning models.
“The scarware blocker adds a new, the first line of defense to help save users coming in contact with a new scam if it attempts to open a full screen page. Skareware blocker uses a machine learning model that runs on a local computer, “Microsoft Edge Team In a blog post“The model uses a computer vision to compare full screen pages with thousands of sample scams that share the community fighting scams shared with us. The model moves locally without saving or sending the clouds to the cloud. ,
Once a scam is detected, the Microsoft Edge will automatically come out of full screen mode which tries to prevent malicious sites, prevent audio playback, and then warns you with that page thumbnail You were watching You can then report the site, so it is added to the Microsoft defender smartscreen service that automatically prevents edge users from visiting the known scam sites.
Originally declared in Ignite in November, the scarware blocker at Microsoft Edge is now available in preview in the latest Stable channel release Of browser. You have to manually enab the scarware blocker in the confidential settings of the edge, and then restart the browser to get the preview feature.