Let us take a look at the warnings it throws up when it wants to draw your attention to certain events. If when you download a file from the Internet, you see a white notice at the bottom of the web ...

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 ...

When Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 hits the Beta 2 milestone in August, the browser makeover will feature a full-fledged anti-malware blocker and new protections against some forms of cross-site ...

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

Microsoft announced this month that it will stop providing updates for its SmartScreen e-mail spam filters on Nov. 1. These filters, which have long been used with Exchange and Outlook, are getting ...

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 programs ...