If you have received an error message saying, "Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting," while launching or installing a recently ...

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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 ...

Windows Defender setting In Windows Defender, you can also change Edge's SmartScreen to merely warn you when you are about to download a file it deems suspicious instead of it outright blocking it.

A new wave of attacks by the DarkGate malware operation exploits a now-fixed Windows Defender SmartScreen vulnerability to bypass security checks and automatically install fake software installers.

A Microsoft Defender SmartScreen vulnerability patched in November has found fresh active exploitation in a Phemedrone information-stealing malware campaign, according to cybersecurity research ...