Microsoft Anti-Phishing technology has come as an extension to Google Chrome

Η Microsoft released a Chrome extension called “Windows Defender Browser Protection” (Browser protection through Windows Defender), which brings to Google Chrome the Anti-phishing technology of Windows Defender and by extension the technology of Edge.

Η extension works with the appearance of intense red pages whenever users are on a malicious links page. The warnings are similar to those displayed by Chrome itself through its Safe Browsing API, but their source for malicious links is Microsoft's database, known as the SmartScreen API.

Chrome users can use both APIs to crawl addresses with electronic "phishing" and malicious software. Microsoft's SmartScreen API isn't as well-known as Google's more famous Safe Browsing API, but it works the same way and provides additional security.

The NSS Labs conducted a related test last year on the security of the three largest web browsers, showed that the Edge (with the SmartScreen API) cut 99% of all URLs that contained "phishing", while Chrome detected only 87% of malicious links. The test results were, of course, republished by Microsoft on this page.

For the record, Microsoft did horribly Mistakes όταν αποφάσισε να δώσει προς χρήση το 2015 μία ημιτελή έκδοση του Edge, αλλά από τότε το πρόγραμμα περιήγησης έχει μετατραπεί σιγά σιγά σε ένα δυνατό και σταθερό προϊόν, ειδικά όταν πρόκειται για χαρακτηριστικά ασφαλείας. Tο SmartScreen API είναι μια αξιόπιστη τεχνολογία, σχεδιασμένη να ενσωματωθεί μέσω του Edge στα Windows 10, που δύσκολα μπορεί να αφήσει κενά στην ασφάλεια, ειδικά όταν πρόκειται για διαδικτυακές επιθέσεις.