How To Enable/Disable SmartScreen Filter In Windows 10

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How to enable and/or disable the SmartScreen Filter on Windows 10.

Additional information regarding the SmartScreen Filter.

Microsoft added a new security feature called SmartScreen Filter to the company's Internet Explorer 8 web browser. The filter has been designed to warn users when unsafe websites are accessed in the web browser.

This covers outright malicious sites that attack the browser or underlying system directly, phishing sites, sites that use other attack forms such as drive by downloads, and anything else considered unsafe by Microsoft.

The SmartScreen filter checks the website that is about to be opened against a list of "high traffic website addresses" stored on the computer system. This list is maintained by Microsoft and contains references to legitimate high traffic sites.

Any address that is not included on the local list is send to a Microsoft server where it is checked against a database of unsafe and suspicious sites. Some computer information and the SmartScreen Filter version number will also be transmitted in the process.

The SmartScreen Filter is a security addition to Internet Explorer that warns users if known malicious or dangerous websites are visited. It is therefore usually recommended to keep the filter activated when Internet Explorer is being used.

Some Internet Explorer users on the other hand might prefer to deactivate it. Either because they are using a security software that checks the websites for them, like Web of Trust for instance, a security software that integrates in the web browser and checks the accessed websites, or because they do not want to transmit information about the visited websites to Microsoft.

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba,Lenovo, and Samsung).







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