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Microsoft Tests a Secured Edge Browser For Business (techradar.com)

Posted by msmash on from the sandbox-ftw dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft is in the testing stage of a new feature in its Edge browser for Windows 10 that is malware-proof as it partitions the browser window from the rest of the computer. This will be a welcome addition for users who are worried about the legitimacy of sites they want to visit. The new feature, catchily dubbed Windows Defender Application Guard, is part of the recently launched Windows Insider Previews. In order to access it you'll need to be a member of Microsoft's business service Enterprise, and have your settings calibrated so you're in the testing group called Fast Ring. Application Guard works by creating a virtual PC that is entirely separate from all storage, other apps, and the Windows 10 Kernel, meaning that the browser should be completely impervious to malware.

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  1. Is it only me that reads this as by Pope+Raymond+Lama · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Microsoft attests Edge browser is insecure by nature" as it does try to develop a separate "secure one"?

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  2. yeah, no by slashdice · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's like telling your wife you wore a condom every time you visited a whore house in Haiti.

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  3. Re:So in other words... by freeze128 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You know what else is "separate from the kernel"? Every other web browser.

  4. Re:So in other words... by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Psychical machine?

    A PC that is bat-shit crazy? One that can divine future events and talk to dead people?

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