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Windows 8 to use SmartScreen Security

April 8, 2011
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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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  • All we need iis a feature that will not let you install Firefox or some other program

    Randall Lind April 9, 2011 12:23 pm Reply

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