At, times, when you try to download a file from the Internet, your Internet Explorer or Ege Legacy browser, may stop it from being downloaded. This is the SmartScreen Filter in action, trying to ...

If early leaked screenshots are to be believed (and the feature survives without being canned for some reason or another) Microsoft is to bake into Windows 8 a file verification tool based on the ...

Let us take a look at the warnings it throws up when it wants to draw your attention to certain events. If when you download a file from the Internet, you see a white notice at the bottom of the web ...

Blogger Long Zheng has revealed a file reputation service that will be included in Windows 8. SmartScreen file checking is derived from the company's similar services for Internet Explorer and Windows ...

If you have received an error message saying, "Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting," while launching or installing a recently ...

Over the weekend, privacy concern were raised regarding how Microsoft Edge is uploading the URLs to SmartScreen without hashing them first. After further testing by BleepingComputer, we learned that ...