Is your SmartScreen Filter turned off? Or do you get the message SmartScreen Filter cannot check this website? If that is so, this post will show you how to enable or disable SmartScreen Filter on ...

SmartScreen is designed to automatically block suspicious files, but it often flags genuine downloads as malicious. Here's how you can disable Windows Defender SmartScreen on Windows 11 to download ...

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 ...

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 and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. It looks like Microsoft is introducing a built-in file checker powered by the SmartScreen Filter in ...

A number of legitimate websites for Australian business and educational institutions were blocked for up to five hours today by Microsoft's SmartScreen phishing and malware filter. From around 10am ...