Have you ever been scrolling along, minding your own business, when an ad suddenly hijacks your page with a full-screen ...

When triggered, it forces the browser out of full-screen mode, stops any audio or visual panic tactics and displays a warning message. It also gives users the option to report the scam to Microsoft, ...

Microsoft has started testing a new "scareware blocker" feature for the Edge web browser on Windows PCs, which uses machine learning (ML) to detect tech support scams. Scareware scams (also known as ...