Today, in our continuing series of Windows 8 tips and tricks, we're going to look at closing Windows 8 Metro apps, and how to work with SmartScreen -- a new feature in Windows 8 that prevents you ...

The researchers have created an open-source tool to check potentially dangerous files for these workarounds. These SmartScreen vulnerabilities appear to have been in place since at least 2018 ...

After some digging around in Microsoft’s new OS, Windows 8, a few people came to the conclusion the SmartScreen filter was breaching user privacy by keeping a very close eye on all installed ...

Let us take a look at the warnings it throws up when it wants to draw your attention to certain events. If when you download a file from the Internet, you see a white notice at the bottom of the web ...

If early leaked screenshots are to be believed (and the feature survives without being canned for some reason or another) Microsoft is to bake into Windows 8 a file verification tool based on the ...

It would not be a good day in the world of Microsoft if we did not bring you at least one Windows 8 leak, and the one that we have dredged up for today is a corker. If you are familiar with either ...

A security researcher has detailed what he claims are “very serious privacy” problems with Windows 8’s SmartScreen feature.

It looks like Microsoft is introducing a built-in file checker powered by the SmartScreen Filter in Windows 8. It appears to serve two purposes: to reactively check ...

Last week we looked at how to shut down Windows 8 and how to boot directly to the Desktop -- two of the most irksome Windows 8 quirks -- and today, in our continuing series of Windows 8 tips and ...