Microsoft Edge 133 is now rolling out globally, and it ships with a number of enhancements, together with a brand new scareware blocker function. As well as, Microsoft is updating the backend of the Downloads UI with efficiency enhancements.
For these unaware, “scareware scams” are also called tech assist scams and they trick victims with alarming internet pages claiming their gadget is contaminated. Scammers then stress them to name a pretend assist quantity and achieve distant entry.
Microsoft has been testing an AI-powered scareware blocker function for some time now. Beginning with model 133, you possibly can lastly flip it on from Edge’s Settings.
In contrast to Defender SmartScreen, which is designed to guard customers as properly, Edge’s new AI/ML-based scareware blocker works in real-time as a result of it understands the content material on the net web page.
“The mannequin makes use of pc imaginative and prescient to check full display pages to 1000’s of pattern scams that the scam-fighting neighborhood shared with us. The mannequin runs regionally, with out saving or sending photographs to the cloud,” Microsoft famous in a weblog put up.
Along with the scareware blocker, Edge’s downloads UI has now been rewritten in WebUI 2.0, which implies quicker efficiency.
With WebUI 2.0, Microsoft is constructing a completely new markup-first structure that minimizes the scale of code and the quantity of JavaScript code that runs in the course of the initialization path of the UI.
This new inside UI structure is extra modular and permits Microsoft to ship new browser options quicker. After Edge 133, Downloads UI ought to load quicker, however you may not discover any UI modifications.
To attempt the Scareware blocker and quicker Downloads UI, replace Edge to model 133 from Settings > About.