![]() ![]() It runs in the background on Windows 10 and will usually manifest as a big blue box saying “Windows protected your PC” by blocking a given program or website. It essentially uses a big database of whitelisted and blacklisted sites to analyze whether a given thing is safe to open. SmartScreen works as an early warning system to let a user know whether a site or app is suspicious or a downloaded file wasn’t found in its list of safe software programs. Note: even if you don’t want to run such an unknown file through SmartScreen, before downloading, you can check for potential malware online at this link. The following guide shows how to disable the SmartScreen Filter in Windows 10. But sometimes you may want to temporarily deactivate this setting to download a game or application you know is safe but is flagged by SmartScreen. Keeping the SmartScreen “always-on” is advisable, as it’s the easiest way to protect your device from undetectable threats.
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