Windows 8 to use SmartScreen Security

Posted by Onuora Amobi on April 8, 2011 in Architecture, Windows 8 Beta, Windows 8 Builds, Windows 8 Development, Windows 8 Features, Windows 8 Screenshots, Windows 8 Security | 2 Comments

From Long Zheng:

Apparently Windows 8 will use SmartScreen as a security feature.

SmartScreen is practically a dynamic list of known “illegal, viral, fraudulent, or malicious” URLs that Microsoft manually or algorithmally identifies. It uses this list to compare the link or executes a user visits or downloads, warning if there’s a match.

It will proactively check the filesystem and attempt to stop and downloads that are foreign to it.

Source: I Started Something

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