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Intrusive gathering of information and hacker sites
Let me start with the payment issue in the Microsoft Edge, you have control over your privacy so if you open Microsoft Edge and navigate to edge://settings/payments, you could remove your credit card details and instruct not collect those data. When this feature is enable it simplify your experience that instead of entering data, it retrieve from browser, but you have control and you may remove or disable this feature.
For the second issue, you may navigate to edge://settings/privacy and look for Microsoft Defender SmartScreen filter and make sure it is on. Microsoft Edge detect and block such contents using different mechanism and algorithm but in case it is missed it, you may always report such contents to Report an unsafe site - Microsoft Security Intelligence.
Thank you very much for your useful reply. I already had all my Windows 11 security features on, including Defender. That's perhaps why, my PC had not been harmed, even tough my whole screen flashed red with a text in large font stating that it had been infected.
Do you think we need an antivrus like Norton with Windows 11?
Thank you for your reply.
Jean-Pierre
- No, Microsoft Defender is sufficient, are you able to use your PC?
From what you explained, I believe it was a website in full screen and not a real infection. The website fool users to download something and if you did, Microsoft Defender most likely would block it and also block the website. However, you may manually report such a website.Thank you Reza. I do not remember whether it appeared from a website or on my PC. It requested that I not turn my PC off. However I immediately shut it off. When I restarted it, everything was fine.
Thank you very much Reza for your answers. They are very useful. It is very much appreciated.
Jean-Pierre
- Welcome and glad it was helpful.
Sometimes it is a website and normally website itself couldn't harm you unless if you download or run anything from the website. There is Microsoft SmartScreen filter which detect and remove these websites but sometimes it missed them , however there are ongoing progress and improvements and SmartScreen filter gets smarter and block more untrusted websites.