Unmaintained Depreciated Microsoft Browser Protection extension

[LinuxFan58]

Recognize this? Installed a security extension in your browser, because you have perfected your setup, because the downside of a (near) perfect setup is that there is nothing left to tweak or improve!

Happened to me: so I installed the M$ browser protection while development should have been stopped. Just for fun to check out how effective this (over) aged extensions still was ... TO MY SURPRISE ...

it did surprisingly well when throwing malware, phishing and fake shops (scams) at it!
Its name Microsoft Defender Browsing Protection.

So Idecided to add it to my work profile (which are mostly M$ cloud services, so I don' t mind M$ learning what websites I am visiting for work).

Anyone still using it on a Chromium (non Edge) based browser (like me on Brave)?

 

[Parkinsond]

I use Edge built-in SmartScreen, but it did not impress on testing; not bad, not great.

 

[silversurfer]

it did surprisingly well when throwing malware, phishing and fake shops (scams) at it!
Its name Microsoft Defender Browsing Protection.

So Idecided to add it to my work profile (which are mostly M$ cloud services, so I don' t mind M$ learning what websites I am visiting for work).

Anyone still using it on a Chromium (non Edge) based browser (like me on Brave)?

@LinuxFan58 Please remember for the future, as I informed you already once recently via forum notification, the following forum rule:

Excessive text formatting (bold, caps, font size) is not allowed. Use text formatting to highlight short passages only.

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[LinuxFan58]

@LinuxFan58 Please remember for the future, as I informed you already once recently via forum notification, the following forum rule:

Yes Sir

I remember not allowing to make jokes of my second best forum friend anymore, not formatting, but your message is understood!

 

[Parkinsond]

@LinuxFan58 Please remember for the future, as I informed you already once recently via forum notification, the following forum rule:

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Excessive, unjustified formatting unnoticed

Unmaintained Post in thread 'End-of-Life announcement for Norton Power Eraser'

Tuesday at 10:03 AM

Norton has officially announced that Norton Power Eraser (NPE) will reach its End-of-Life (EOL) on April 30, 2026. After this date, the tool will no longer be supported, will stop receiving updates, and will cease to function.

The decision to retire the tool comes down to a shift in how Norton handles modern cybersecurity. Here is the breakdown of why they are making this move:

Why it’s being retired​

• Integration, not elimination: Norton’s official stance is that NPE’s "aggressive" scanning and malware removal capabilities have been fully...

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[silversurfer]

Yes Sir

I remember not allowing to make jokes of my second best forum friend anymore, not formatting, but your message is understood!

You should remember for all of Forum Rules, otherwise Warning Points like 10% are one way that forum people remember easier...

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[silversurfer]

Excessive, unjustified formatting unnoticed

Unmaintained Post in thread 'End-of-Life announcement for Norton Power Eraser'

Tuesday at 10:03 AM

Norton has officially announced that Norton Power Eraser (NPE) will reach its End-of-Life (EOL) on April 30, 2026. After this date, the tool will no longer be supported, will stop receiving updates, and will cease to function.

The decision to retire the tool comes down to a shift in how Norton handles modern cybersecurity. Here is the breakdown of why they are making this move:

Why it’s being retired​

• Integration, not elimination: Norton’s official stance is that NPE’s "aggressive" scanning and malware removal capabilities have been fully...

• bazang

• 

Well, that are only small parts of the full content in larger font size, that is allowed, according to Forum Rules:

Use text formatting to highlight short passages only.

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[lokamoka820]

I always thought that this extension needed Microsoft Defender to work with it, and I never thought that using it on Linux was possible, good to know.

 

[Parkinsond]

I always thought that this extension needed Microsoft Defender to work with it, and I never thought that using it on Linux was possible, good to know.

Yes, it is independent from MD.
MD SS kicks in when after file download.
But Edge SS offers an advantage over using MS browser protection in Chrome; it can block file download.

 

[simmerskool]

@LinuxFan58 Please remember for the future, as I informed you already once recently via forum notification, the following forum rule:

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@silversurfer (& @LinuxFan58) -- for my clarification, please, your link is to forum rules, good, it lists 7 numbered rules, then under those 7, I see several screens listing 14 headings of examples or further explanations, but all of those are unnumbered. fwiw it was not obvious to me what rule or example was violated or that the offending post was in violation of "Excessive text formatting (bold, caps, font size) is not allowed. Use text formatting to highlight short passages only." The closest "rule" (ie example) that I found is "Excessively communicating the same phrase, similar phrases, or pure gibberish" -- perhaps I missed something (it happens) Maybe post 1 was edited by the time I read it??

 

[harlan4096]

"Excessive text formatting (bold, caps, font size) is not allowed. Use text formatting to highlight short passages only."

 

[simmerskool]

"Excessive text formatting (bold, caps, font size) is not allowed. Use text formatting to highlight short passages only."

yes I did see that in the explanations to the rules, imo post 1 was a short passage of CAPS, never occurred to me it was offensive / prohibited until I read @silversurfer post. imo (fwiw) the MT folks should run the rules URL thru AI LLM and number all the specific examples. I thought that before LLMs were online.

 

[silversurfer]

@silversurfer (& @LinuxFan58) -- for my clarification, please, your link is to forum rules, good, it lists 7 numbered rules, then under those 7, I see several screens listing 14 headings of examples or further explanations, but all of those are unnumbered. fwiw it was not obvious to me what rule or example was violated or that the offending post was in violation of "Excessive text formatting (bold, caps, font size) is not allowed. Use text formatting to highlight short passages only." The closest "rule" (ie example) that I found is "Excessively communicating the same phrase, similar phrases, or pure gibberish" -- perhaps I missed something (it happens) Maybe post 1 was edited by the time I read it??

Of course, I have edited the OP #1 here in the thread, before it looks like that:

it did surprisingly well when throwing malware, phishing and fake shops (scams) at it!
Its name Microsoft Defender Browsing Protection.

So Idecided to add it to my work profile (which are mostly M$ cloud services, so I don' t mind M$ learning what websites I am visiting for work).

Anyone still using it on a Chromium (non Edge) based browser (like me on Brave)?

yes I did see that in the explanations to the rules, imo post 1 was a short passage of CAPS, never occurred to me it was offensive / prohibited until I read @silversurfer post. imo (fwiw) the MT folks should run the rules URL thru AI LLM and number all the specific examples. I thought that before LLMs were online.

To check the rule(s) I mentioned, scroll down to the end of the page: Forum Rules

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[Sorrento]

I think I post 'gibberish'

 

[Virtuoso]

I am using Microsoft Browser Protection extension on Chrome, it is the lightest security extension at just 240 KB in size. A forum member here has also tested various extensions and their performance impact, he found that the system impact is so small that it is difficult to measure. It has not been updated since a year but it is not needed as everything is server based and it is nice that it is a lean and mean beast instead of a bloated mess. Link:

Microsoft Defender Browser Protection - Chrome Web Store

Protect yourself against online threats, like phishing and malicious websites, with real-time protection from Microsoft.

chromewebstore.google.com

 

[oldschool]

https://browserdefaults.microsoft.com/extensions/MicrosoftDefender/index.html?extnID=bkbeeeffjjeopflfhgeknacdieedcoml&mkt=en-us&br=gc