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Home : February 28 2020 Computer News : Microsoft begins blocking 'unwanted applications' like adware and cryptominers, using Edge

Microsoft begins blocking 'unwanted applications' like adware and cryptominers, using Edge

February 28, 2020

Beginning with the current version of Microsoft Edge, Microsoft will begin blocking adware, Bitcoin miners, and other unwanted apps that sometimes accompany apps that users download from the web.Microsoft Edge version 80 contains a new Settings menu with the option to “Block potentially unwanted apps,” which works in conjunction with Windows’ Microsoft Defender SmartScreen to detect and warn against what Microsoft calls PUAs, or Potentially Unwanted Apps. (Microsoft has listed what it considers to be common PUAs here.)To read this article in full, please click here

Link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3529675/microsoft-begins-blocking-unwanted-applications-like-adware-and-cryptominers-using-edge.html#tk.rss_all
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