The scareware may not damage your computer, but it could scare users into giving their credit card information to scammers. Dianne Farha often surfs the web for new recipes but she nearly clicked ...

Computer experts are warning users about those pop-up ads that say a device is infected with a virus. It looks authentic, but it’s not. The fake virus alerts are called “scareware”, because ...

Microsoft is rolling out a new tool dubbed “scareware blocker,” which uses machine learning and computer vision to identify a very pervasive type of online scam.

DuckDuckGo has now extended the fraud protection in its privacy-centric browser to shield users from even more scams — ...

This is scareware — a scam designed to make you believe your computer has been compromised. The goal is to pressure you into calling a fake tech support number where scammers will try to access ...

The hackers behind the scareware previously targeted Windows users but switched to macOS after Microsoft introduced an anti-scareware feature for the Edge browser.

As described in a Microsoft blog post on Monday, Edge's Scareware blocker works by using computer vision to compare a scareware site that tries to open full-screen with thousands of sample scams.

How to remove scareware. If your computer or mobile device does get compromised with scareware, removing it shouldn’t be too much of a challenge. Remember, it’s not real malware.

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.

On this week's Tech Tips, we discuss scareware and how to avoid getting trapped by it.Cybercriminals have learned over the years that the most effective way to ...

Microsoft is rolling out a new tool dubbed “scareware blocker,” which uses machine learning and computer vision to identify a ...

The hackers behind the scareware previously targeted Windows users but switched to macOS after Microsoft introduced an anti-scareware feature for the Edge browser.