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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Ful" data-source="post: 865603" data-attributes="member: 32260"><p>After some digging, I found the extended description of policies related to Edge:</p><p>"<span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>SmartScreenPuaEnabled</strong></span></p><p><strong>Configure Microsoft Defender SmartScreen to block potentially unwanted apps</strong></p><p><strong>Supported versions:</strong></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">On Windows and macOS since 80 or later</li> </ul><p><strong>Description</strong></p><p><em>This policy setting lets you configure whether to turn on blocking for potentially unwanted apps with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen. Potentially unwanted app blocking with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen provides warning messages to help protect users from adware, coin miners, bundleware, and other low-reputation apps that are hosted by websites. Potentially unwanted app blocking with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is turned off by default.</em></p><p><em>...</em>"</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#description-77[/URL]</p><p></p><p>It seems that without this setting SmartScreen in Edge will allow downloading popular applications bundled with PUA.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy Ful, post: 865603, member: 32260"] After some digging, I found the extended description of policies related to Edge: "[SIZE=5][B]SmartScreenPuaEnabled[/B][/SIZE] [B]Configure Microsoft Defender SmartScreen to block potentially unwanted apps Supported versions:[/B] [LIST] [*]On Windows and macOS since 80 or later [/LIST] [B]Description[/B] [I]This policy setting lets you configure whether to turn on blocking for potentially unwanted apps with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen. Potentially unwanted app blocking with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen provides warning messages to help protect users from adware, coin miners, bundleware, and other low-reputation apps that are hosted by websites. Potentially unwanted app blocking with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is turned off by default. ...[/I]" [URL unfurl="true"]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#description-77[/URL] It seems that without this setting SmartScreen in Edge will allow downloading popular applications bundled with PUA. [/QUOTE]
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