Windows 10 2004 improves potentially unwanted app protection

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Windows 10 2004 improves potentially unwanted app protection:

In the soon to be released Windows 10 2004, otherwise known as the May 2020 Update, Microsoft is finally making it easy to detect potentially unwanted programs and tightly integrating it into the operating system.

Potentially unwanted applications, otherwise known as PUAs or PUPs, are programs that are not quite malware but pretty close to it.

While legal entities create these programs, they skirt the boundaries of respectable software, and in most cases, they are ultimately detrimental to users in some manner.

Previously had to be enabled via PowerShell

May 2020 Update adds a new PUA setting

These Windows Security settings are synchronized with both Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Edge. This means disabling a setting via Edge, PowerShell, or other methods will synchronize it with the Windows Security settings.

It also illustrates how the new Microsoft Edge is not just a stand-alone web browser but is tightly integrated into Windows 10 2004 and now an essential part of the overall security of the operating system.

Read the whole story with pictures here on Bleeping Computer:

Windows 10 2004 improves potentially unwanted app protection

In the soon to be released Windows 10 2004, otherwise known as the May 2020 Update, Microsoft is finally making it easy to detect potentially unwanted programs and tightly integrating it into the operating system.

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[Bryan320]

it only took them how many years to do? yay for microsoft L0L...

 

[South Park]

An earlier version of MSE had a PUA setting, which they removed after grayware makers threatened to sue MS over the inclusions. I've been using the PUA setting in Configure Defender, but glad to see it being rolled out again to the masses.

 

[shmu26]

I got 2004 on my VM by joining the Insiders program, but I didn't see this feature.

 

[Andrew3000]

W10 2004 Update, the "new feature" is here.