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Smartscreen microsoft defender9/5/2023 By the way, the EICAR (European Institute from Computer Antivirus Research) test file was created to test the response of AV software ( ). Moreover, after downloading it using a different browser I have executed the EICAR test file - you can see the result in the left side of the screenshot below. In order to demonstrate the working of SmartScreen I have tried to download (using Edge) - you can see the warning in the left side of the screenshot below. We can sum up the benefits of SmartScreen as follows: anti-phishing/anti-malware support, reputation-based URL/application protection, operating system integration, ease of management using group policy/Microsoft Intune and blocking URLs associated with potentially unwanted applications. Microsoft Defender SmartScreen helps with determining whether a site is potentially malicious and by determining if a downloaded application/installer is potentially malicious. SmartScreen is a cloud-based anti-phishing/anti-malware component which is included in different Microsoft products such as: Windows, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge ( ). The executable is located at “%windir%\System32\smartscreen.exe” (On 64 bit systems there is only a 64 bit version with no 32 bit version - in contrast to other executables such as cmd.exe). “smartscreen.exe” is an executable which is the “Windows Defender SmartScreen”. The Windows Process Journey - smartscreen.exe (Windows Defender SmartScreen)
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