Protect your computer from phising attacks and malwares without any antivirus in windows 8

In internet Explorer 8, Microsoft introduced the SmartScreen filter, a new measure to protect users against phising attacks and malwares. Thus SmartScreen filtes tests the URLs a user is trying to access against a list of blacklisted URLs that are known to containg malwares. In IE9 Microsoft extended this to downloaded files as well.

Now in windows 8, this is a core part of the system, and will test files downloaded from the internet by any application and, not just Internet Explorer. It is a good initial measure against malware and should probably not be turned off unless you have another antivirus software installed.

Even so if you wish to configure it or turn it off, here is how you can do that -

¤ Open the control panel.
¤ Open Action Centre which can be found under System and Security, you can just search for it.
¤ On the left you find a link titled "Change Windows SmartScreen settings", click on it.

This will open a dialog that lets you opt between three levels of protection for the SmartScreen filter. The highes level of protection will require you to provide administrator approval before running any unrecognised application ; which could mean clicking Yes on a UAC promt, or entering a password. The second level of protection simply warns you before running any application, but needs no approval. The final option is to simply have the filter turned off.

Enjoy friends and keep viriting for more updates.
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