Users of Internet Explorer and Edge were being blocked from downloading the update because the installer for the update was falsely identified as malicious by SmartScreen (“Windows Defender”.) Users of other browsers were told the executable couldn’t be run when they tried to execute it. What do you do when your program is incorrectly matched to a malicious signature in Microsoft SmartScreen? What recourse do developers have to get their programs allow-listed? What should you do as a user when something is blocked by SmartScreen?Ĭompletely unrelated (not) to the newly released update to my free EdgeDeflector utility, I needed to find out how to report a false-positive in Microsoft SmartScreen. It’s used to block phishing and fraudulent websites from loading, and to block malicious apps from running. SmartScreen is a Windows Defender component found in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer as well as in all universal apps from the Windows Store.
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