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Microsoft Ports Edge Anti-Phishing Technology To Google Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has released a Chrome extension named "Windows Defender Browser Protection" that ports Windows Defender's -- and inherently Edge's -- anti-phishing technology to Google Chrome. The extension works by showing bright red-colored pages whenever users are tricked into accessing malicious links. The warnings are eerily similar to the ones that Chrome natively shows via the Safe Browsing API, but are powered by Microsoft's database of malicious links —also known as the SmartScreen API.
Chrome users should be genuinely happy that they can now use both APIs for detecting phishing and malware-hosting URLs. The SmartScreen API isn't as known as Google's more famous Safe Browsing API, but works in the same way, and possibly even better. An NSS Labs benchmark revealed that Edge (with its SmartScreen API) caught 99 percent of all phishing URLs thrown at it during a test last year, while Chrome only detected 87 percent of the malicious links users accessed.
Chrome users should be genuinely happy that they can now use both APIs for detecting phishing and malware-hosting URLs. The SmartScreen API isn't as known as Google's more famous Safe Browsing API, but works in the same way, and possibly even better. An NSS Labs benchmark revealed that Edge (with its SmartScreen API) caught 99 percent of all phishing URLs thrown at it during a test last year, while Chrome only detected 87 percent of the malicious links users accessed.
Chrome users should be genuinely happy that they can now use both
LMFAO, so preemptively defensive.
An NSS Labs benchmark revealed that Edge (with its SmartScreen API) caught 99 percent of all phishing URLs thrown at it during a test last year, while Chrome only detected 87 percent of the malicious links users accessed.
You will have to forgive me if I consider this a worthless statistic... you know microsoft have a history if "beating everyone else" in their own hand crafted benchmarks only to be utter shit in reality (especially when talking about browsers).
Really. How does Windows telemetry get my data when I'm running Ubuntu?
Yeah, that's the point of making a Chrome extension - to penetrate the non-Windows market for data harvesting. Just waiting for someone to scope the packets that get phoned home to Microsoft when this is installed.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
As usual someone has completely missed the point while frothing at the mouth against the headline.
This has NOTHING to do with Chrome. This has everything to do with Symantec, McAfee, and others, and is MS trying to prove their Windows Defender product is better than the alternatives and more feature rich.
And to be honest I struggle to disagree. I think in terms of the overall package (security and performance) users should pick:
1. Windows Defender
2. Absolutely no Antivirus
3. No internet connection or USB ports.
4. Setting their computers on fire.
5. Installing Avast.
That's it. I find using Symantec or one of the others a cure worse than the disease.