Group Policies/Computer Configuration/Windows Components/Windows Defender SmartScreen.md

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-# Windows Defender SmartScreen
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-`Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Defender SmartScreen`
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-- Enhanced Phising Protection -> Service Enabled -> Disabled
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-**For a corporate scenario or when you cannot trust the user you are configuring it for and you choose to have SmartScreen enabled, do the followings:**,
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-- Explorer -> Configure Windows Defender SmartScreen -> Enabled -> Warn and prevent bypass
-- Microsoft Edge -> Prevent bypassing Windws Defender SmartScreen prompts for sites -> Enabled
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-There is also Explorer -> Configure App Install Control that you might want to look into. Probably theatre though, it doesn't appear to block anything, or anything meaningful at least.

Windows Settings/Windows Security.md

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 ### Phising protection
 
-This is extremely invasive to the point where I do not think it's okay to keep it on under any circumstances, with any kind of threat model.
+Not sure if this does online or offline checks, so privacy implications are unclear. It is theatre anyways - use a proper password manager and FIDO2. Best to keep it off.
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-https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/protect-your-microsoft-password-from-being-phished-e4e8e611-e4b3-4be9-914c-db1657c337cf
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-The protection is minimal - it only "protects" the Microsoft account used to sign into Windows. The whole exercise is theatre, use a proper password manager and FIDO2.
 
 ### Potentially unwanted app blocking