We live in fast-paced and often worrying times, and fraudsters are primed to take advantage. Fear can be a powerful weapon and scammers know how to instill it in people and coerce them into taking ...

Third-party driver updaters pose a significant threat to Windows PC stability and security. These programs are often scareware, using aggressive warnings to push paid subscriptions for services ...

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 ...

The scareware blocker will even detect new and emerging scams and let you report them to Microsoft. The scareware blocker will even detect new and emerging scams and let you report them to Microsoft.

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I recently did a Google search on a subject — can’t even remember what now, but that’s not important. As I ...