IE9 Lesson 8: The SmartScreen filter IE9 Lesson 10: The one-box search and compatibility view Resources Videos Spotlight: Optimize the Cloud by J. Peter Bruzzese Columnist ...

A problem with the Microsoft SmartScreen malware-thwarting technology in Internet Explorer 8 rendered countless users unable to access all kinds of sites throughout the day on November 4.

If early leaked screenshots are to be believed (and the feature survives without being canned for some reason or another) Microsoft is to bake into Windows 8 a file verification tool based on the ...

Antimalware efforts might be paying off, as Microsoft reports that the browser's SmartScreen Filter has stopped 1 billion malware downloads since its launch.

Turn on SmartScreen Filter: This sends the URLs you visit in Windows Store apps to Microsoft to check them against a list of potentially harmful sites. Google Chrome does this as well.

Microsoft announced this month that it will stop providing updates for its SmartScreen e-mail spam filters on Nov. 1.

If you are familiar with either Internet Explorer or Windows Live Messenger 2011, you might know of something called the ‘SmartScreen Filter.’ If not, it’s a tool that Microsoft has built to ...

Internet Explorer 8's Smartscreen Filter, used to secure users from dodgy websites, has stopped its one billionth malware download, Microsoft has proudly announced.

Microsoft has updated its SmartScreen web filter to defend against drive-by attacks in the company's latest tweaks to Windows 10. SmartScreen is designed to protect surfers from various malware ...

The effects will be seen in Internet Explorer, whose SmartScreen Filter feature will enforce new rules against misleading ads beginning June 1.

After some digging around in Microsoft’s new OS, Windows 8, a few people came to the conclusion the SmartScreen filter was breaching user privacy by keeping a very close eye on all installed ...

Nevertheless, the Exploring IE blog was quick to laud the findings, adding that since another NSS report that came out in October, "the average time taken by SmartScreen filter to block a threat ...