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New download option and potentially dangerous message
tistou Thanks for reaching out! To confirm, do you mean that you want to unilaterally stop seeing the warning message? If so, can you tell us how that would improve your experience?
Fawkes (they/them)
Program Manager & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
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I found, I have to enable "Microsoft Defender SmartScreen" to no longer get this warning...
Really weird
Windows Defender is disabled, I am using another antivirus
bhkumar007Microsoft
tistou Microsoft Defender SmartScreen and Windows Defender are different things. Enabling SmartScreen in Edge doesn't change Anti-virus settings.
Yes I leave it enabled so as not to have the message
But I thought it was quite the opposite,Having the Smart Screen disabled = no warning message
- bhkumar007
tistou Not exactly. When SmartScreen is enabled, you get smart recommendation from the defender service about the maliciousness of the file being downloaded. When SmartScreen is disabled, browser has to fall back to not so smart logic of identifying the potential security issues based on the type of files. e.g. an exe can be virus and .txt not so much. So, you are likely to see a warning for .exe and not so much for .txt