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ScarewareBlockerProtectionEnabled

Configure Microsoft Edge scareware blocker protection

Supported versions

  • On Windows since 134 or later
  • On macOS since 142 or later

Description

This policy setting allows administrators to control whether Microsoft Edge enables scareware blocker, an AI-powered feature for protecting users from potential tech scams. To support this feature, Microsoft Edge downloads a machine learning model file from Microsoft to the device.

If you enable or don’t configure this policy, Microsoft Edge scareware blocker uses local AI to detect potential tech scams.

If you disable this policy, Microsoft Edge scareware blocker is disabled. The machine learning model file doesn't download to the device, and if downloaded, deletion occurs.

When this policy is enabled, the policies ScarewareBlockerBlocksDetectedSitesEnabled, ScarewareBlockerSendDetectedSitesToSmartScreenEnabled, and ScarewareBlockerAllowListDomains can be used to configure the behavior of the scareware blocker feature. If both of those policies are disabled, enabling this policy has no effect.

When this policy is disabled, the policies ScarewareBlockerBlocksDetectedSitesEnabled, ScarewareBlockerSendDetectedSitesToSmartScreenEnabled, and ScarewareBlockerAllowListDomains have no effect.

Supported features

  • Can be mandatory: Yes
  • Can be recommended: Yes
  • Dynamic Policy Refresh: Yes
  • Per Profile: No
  • Applies to a profile that is signed in with a Microsoft account: Yes

Data type

  • Boolean

Windows information and settings

Group Policy (ADMX) info

  • GP unique name: ScarewareBlockerProtectionEnabled
  • GP name: Configure Edge scareware blocker protection
  • GP path (Mandatory): Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge/Scareware Blocker settings
  • GP path (Recommended): Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge - Default Settings (users can override)/Scareware Blocker settings
  • GP ADMX file name: MSEdge.admx

Example value

Enabled

Registry settings

  • Path (Mandatory): SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge
  • Path (Recommended): SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\Recommended
  • Value name: ScarewareBlockerProtectionEnabled
  • Value type: REG_DWORD

Example registry value

0x00000001

Mac information and settings

  • Preference Key name: ScarewareBlockerProtectionEnabled
  • Example value:
<true/>

See also