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Give it time; it's a trickle campaign. Just this morning I updated my Win 10 Pro desktop, and on reboot I got a full screen wizard prompting me to "use recommen

Give it time; it's a trickle campaign. Just this morning I updated my Win 10 Pro desktop, and on reboot I got a full screen wizard prompting me to "use recommended browser settings" which is doublespeak for changing my default browser to Edge. Edit: On re-reading, I believe OP was specifically referring to false positives with SmartScreen that crop up regularly, like at https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/n7gige/ms_edge_blocking_firefox_installer_download/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/n7gige/ms_edge_blo...

kevingadd 5y ago
The SmartScreen stuff is a plague that applies to all software developers in varying degrees. Chrome does this with their safe browsing stuff too, I hate it - essentially everyone gets told your exe is "malicious" until enough people have downloaded it without it being flagged as malware. The idea that it applies to trusted vendors like Mozilla shipping code-signed executables is bonkers to me. Nice way to promote further centralization into services like app stores that don't suffer from this!
- LinuxBender 5y ago
  You can disable SmartScreen with O&O ShutUp10 [1] on the home version. [1] - https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
vladvasiliu 5y ago
> Give it time; it's a trickle campaign. Just this morning I updated my Win 10 Pro desktop, and on reboot I got a full screen wizard prompting me to "use recommended browser settings" which is doublespeak for changing my default browser to Edge. Yeah, I actually think this is a case of "don't explain by malice that which could be adequately explained by stupidity" or something. I'm only a casual Windows user (only use for it games) and never bother to install another browser, Edge works well enough to download Steam and occasionally look up something on the internet. Earlier this week when it installed the new update I also got the same "use recommended browser settings" dialog box. I think I had disabled 3rd party cookies or something as well as the random junk on the new page, so not willing to click around for half an hour I denied using anything and all went well. I'm pretty sure this isn't the first time I see the "use recommended settings" on this PC, since seeing it gave me an "again?!" reaction. This is a Win10 Pro that's always been kept up to date.

kevingadd 5y ago

The SmartScreen stuff is a plague that applies to all software developers in varying degrees. Chrome does this with their safe browsing stuff too, I hate it - essentially everyone gets told your exe is "malicious" until enough people have downloaded it without it being flagged as malware. The idea that it applies to trusted vendors like Mozilla shipping code-signed executables is bonkers to me. Nice way to promote further centralization into services like app stores that don't suffer from this!

LinuxBender 5y ago
You can disable SmartScreen with O&O ShutUp10 [1] on the home version. [1] - https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

vladvasiliu 5y ago

> Give it time; it's a trickle campaign. Just this morning I updated my Win 10 Pro desktop, and on reboot I got a full screen wizard prompting me to "use recommended browser settings" which is doublespeak for changing my default browser to Edge. Yeah, I actually think this is a case of "don't explain by malice that which could be adequately explained by stupidity" or something. I'm only a casual Windows user (only use for it games) and never bother to install another browser, Edge works well enough to download Steam and occasionally look up something on the internet. Earlier this week when it installed the new update I also got the same "use recommended browser settings" dialog box. I think I had disabled 3rd party cookies or something as well as the random junk on the new page, so not willing to click around for half an hour I denied using anything and all went well. I'm pretty sure this isn't the first time I see the "use recommended settings" on this PC, since seeing it gave me an "again?!" reaction. This is a Win10 Pro that's always been kept up to date.