Scareware: It's back, and now it's even scarier ‘Scareware’ - fake antivirus programs which attempt to fool the user into downloading malware, by warning him or her of a “threat” on their ...

Microsoft Edge now comes with a Scareware blocker, a new feature that will help to reduce the chances of falling for tech support scams online, and here's how to enable it.

AmyBG June 26, 2011. Scareware is the most annoying threat out there. Not only are there people who will fall prey to it through lack of knowledge and naivety, but sometimes the way it pops up on ...

Feds bust ‘scareware’ ring accused of making $72 million by selling phony anti-virus software June 22, 2011 5:50 PM PT Share via Close extra sharing options ...

Microsoft filed lawsuits against five companies Thursday, accusing them of using malicious advertisements to trick victims into installing software on their computers. The company is suing ...

As the 2010 World Cup reaches its climax this weekend, hundreds of millions of football fans are busy scouring the Web for news on the globe's biggest sporting event -- and cyber-criminals are ...

How does Scareware Blocker work? Using a local machine learning model, Edge compares full-screen pages with thousands of past scams that were submitted by Microsoft’s scam-fighting community.

Microsoft has started testing a new "scareware blocker" feature for the Edge web browser on Windows PCs, which uses machine learning (ML) to detect tech support scams.

A suspected scammer who used scareware to trick hundreds of thousands of global victims into handing over money has been arrested by Spanish police. The unnamed Ukrainian national was apprehended at ...

As the 2010 World Cup reaches its climax this weekend, hundreds of millions of football fans are busy scouring the Web for news on the globe's biggest sporting event -- and cyber-criminals are waiting ...