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Elliot Kirk
Former Employee
Feb 27, 2020

New Blog post on protections from unwanted applications in our new browser

Hi all,

    We published another blog post  this morning.  This new post is all about the protections we have added into the new Microsoft Edge browser that will help protect you from potential malware and other unwanted applications.  Please take some time and read about how to enable this new protection, and how to let us know if the application is reputable.  Thanks, Elliot

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/02/27/protecting-users-potentially-unwanted-apps/

 

5 Replies

  • esarhaddon's avatar
    esarhaddon
    Brass Contributor
    Jun 13, 2020

    I had to turn it off. I have Malwarebytes which does this for me. I tried to D/L an app from the Knowbe4 group and the Edge tool would not permit it and even when selecting to allow it. No Joy!Elliot Kirk 

  • TrafGib's avatar
    TrafGib
    Iron Contributor
    Mar 19, 2020

    Elliot Kirk 

     

    Great feature. As far as real world testing goes, I have seen no alerts with this enabled. However, I do get PUP alerts from Malwarebytes. In the sequential scheme of things, Malwarebytes may well be intervening and triggering the alert before Edge picks up on it. A recent real world example was my trying to find a clean copy of ImgBurn. Malwarebytes triggered the alert on 5 different (relatively mainstream) download sites before I finally found a clean copy.

  • Reza_Ameri-Archived's avatar
    Reza_Ameri-Archived
    Bronze Contributor
    Feb 29, 2020
    Hi,

    Thank you for the post, this is very useful feature. However let say user is using Windows Defender and enable PUA protection in Windows Defender, I guess in this case it should override this option in Microsoft Edge and makes it enable. So let say user is downloading something and SmartScreen filter allow it (since PUA) is off in Edge and Windows Defender detects it because PUA is on in Windows Defender and it cause confusion. I believe there should be some sort of sync between PUA on/off between Microsoft Edge and Windows Defender.
    However, enable PUA in Windows Defender is not using direct UI, therefore there is need to request to add GUI in Windows Defender in Windows 10 for PUA too.