12 Facts About Microsoft SmartScreen

SmartScreen is a cloud-based anti-phishing and anti-malware component included in several Microsoft products, including operating systems Windows 8 and later, the applications Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge.

The effectiveness of Microsoft SmartScreen filtering has been reported to be superior to socially engineered malware protection in other browsers.

Microsoft SmartScreen Edge was Microsoft SmartScreen's new browser beginning in Windows 10, originally built on the same Windows web platform powering Internet Explorer, later rebuilt on Google's Chromium browser stack to go cross-platform onto macOS and down-level into Windows 8.

In 2017, Microsoft SmartScreen reversed that policy by adding the URL submission page, allowing a user to submit an arbitrary URL without having to visit the website.

SmartScreen Filter in Microsoft Outlook was previously bypassable due to a data gap in Internet Explorer.

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When Microsoft SmartScreen is left at its default settings, the administrator needs to launch and run the program.

Microsoft SmartScreen faced concerns surrounding the privacy, legality and effectiveness of the new system, suggesting that the automatic analysis of files could be used to build a database of users' downloads online, and that the use of the outdated SSL 2.

Microsoft SmartScreen protects against spoofed domain names in emails to verify whether an email is sent by the domain which it claims to be sent.

Microsoft SmartScreen Filter was noted for adding legitimate sites to its blocklists almost instantaneously, as opposed to the several hours it took for blocklists to be updated on other browsers.

In July 2010, Microsoft claimed that SmartScreen on Internet Explorer had blocked over a billion attempts to access sites containing security risks.

Microsoft SmartScreen Filter creates a problem for small software vendors when they distribute an updated version of installation or binary files over the internet.

Whenever an updated version is released, Microsoft SmartScreen responds by stating that the file is not commonly downloaded and can therefore install harmful files on your system.