5/25/2023 0 Comments Windows defender smartscreen![]() Enhanced Phishing Protection helps protect users from reported phishing sites by evaluating the URLs a site or app is connecting to, along with other characteristics, to determine if they're known to distribute or host unsafe content. The benefits of Enhanced Phishing Protection are:Īnti-phishing support: Phishing attacks trick users through convincing imitations of safe content or through credential harvesting content hosted inside trusted sites and applications. Since it's unsafe to store plaintext passwords in text editors, Enhanced Phishing Protection can warn users if they store their work or school password in Notepad, Word, or any Microsoft 365 Office app, and recommends they delete their password from the file.īenefits of Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender SmartScreenĮnhanced Phishing Protection provides robust phishing protections for work or school passwords that are used to sign into Windows 11. Enhanced Phishing Protection can warn users if they reuse their work or school Microsoft account password on sites and apps and prompt them to change their password. Reusing work or school passwords makes it easy for attackers who compromise a user's password to gain access to their other accounts. It will also prompt them to change their password so attackers can't gain access to their account. If users type their work or school password on any Chromium browser, into a site deemed malicious by Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, Enhanced Phishing Protection will alert them. ![]() Starting in Windows 11, version 22H2, Enhanced Phishing Protection in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen helps protect Microsoft school or work passwords against phishing and unsafe usage on sites and apps.Įnhanced Phishing Protection works alongside Windows security protections, and helps protect typed work or school passwords used to sign into Windows 11 in three ways:
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