Interactive configuration of Defender SmartScreen In addition, advanced phishing protection monitors whether users save their passwords in Office documents, in WordPad, or in text files and warns them about this behavior. If one of these websites gets hacked and the passwords are circulating on the Internet, attackers take advantage of such lists for brute force attacks. This is particularly problematic when employees reuse the password for their company account on social media or online stores. Monitoring passwords entered into web applications also helps to stop the widespread bad habit of using the same password for multiple accounts.

In this way, admins find out that a password may have been compromised, and hence can force the password to be changed if the user has ignored the corresponding warning. If companies use Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, this incident will appear in the MDE portal.

All Chromium-based products are supported. If users enter their Windows passwords (Microsoft account, Active Directory, Azure AD, or one for local accounts) into fraudulent websites, SmartScreen will prompt them to change their password. In doing so, it provides the following three functions: Entering passwords into insecure sites Windextends SmartScreen's protection against phishing attacks in that it monitors the use of passwords. To minimize such false alarms, another criterion is the reliability of the source from which a file was downloaded. Conversely, SmartScreen may object to a harmless but relatively exotic program.

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