Microsoft is rolling out a new tool dubbed "scareware blocker," which uses machine learning and computer vision to identify a very pervasive type of online scam. "Scareware" has blighted the web ...

Microsoft this week announced that its scareware blocker, which aims to identify potential scam sites and messages, is now in public preview. The feature, which was first announced in November at ...

Microsoft has teamed with Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna to try and stamp out so-called scareware. The AG and Microsoft have filed lawsuits against James Reed McCreary IV of The ...

Microsoft filed lawsuits against five companies Thursday, accusing them of using malicious advertisements to trick victims into installing software on their computers. The company is suing DirectAd ...

A rogue version of Microsoft's free antimalware product, Microsoft Security Essentials, is making its way around the Internet by scaring users into buying a bogus security product. Initially the rogue ...

Microsoft and Washington State officials announced a new partnership today aimed at fighting scareware in general and one specific vendor in particular. Today isn't such a good day for one James Reed ...

Of all the things that Windows 8 brought to the table, it's the much-maligned Start Screen that seems to get most of the attention. That's unfortunate, because there were many other aspects of the OS ...