Microsoft Edge and IE 11 get protection from ‘drive-by attacks’ in Windows 10

Microsoft has done a lot of Security-related fixes, of late, and Web browsing is probably where you need security the most. Their latest fix may help in making Internet a much safer place. No, they haven’t removed trolls but they have done the next-best thing, Edge & IE 11 are now protected from drive-by attacks.

Microsoft explains drive-by attacks as:

“Drive-by attacks are malicious web attacks that tend to start on trusted websites, targeting security vulnerabilities in commonly used software. What’s more, they often don’t require any user interaction – so there’s nothing to click, nothing to download – and infection is usually invisible.”

Microsoft has gathered information on how these attacks are made via data from Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Bing, Defender and others. This information is added to the SmartScreen protection system:

“Unlike existing SmartScreen protection from socially engineered attacks, drive-by attacks need to be detected and prevented before any web content is parsed and rendered. To avoid impacting browsing performance, SmartScreen helps protect against drive-by attacks by using a small cache file created by the SmartScreen service. This cache file is periodically updated by your browser to help keep you protected and to ensure that calls to the SmartScreen service are only made if we believe there’s a high probability of malicious content on a page.”

Now browsing on Edge and IE will be safer. It seems Microsoft is pulling all stops to make Windows 10 secure. And that’s a great thing!

 

Source: Microsoft via Windows Central