Windows 10 will soon aggressively block dubious downloads

Windows 10 will begin blocking “potentially unwanted applications”—bundled apps that you probably don’t want—by default, Microsoft says, beginning in early August. The change was announced in a support document noted by Windows Latest. If you download a lot of third-party utilities, you may already have run into a potentially unwanted application (PUA), also called a potentially unwanted program (PUP). The terms most often describe a bundled piece of adware, or—worse—a small additional application that slowly mines cryptocurrency in the background.To read this article in full, please click here https://www.pcworld.com/article/3628168/windows-10-will-soon-aggressively-block-dubious-downloads.html#tk.rss_all

Vytvořeno 4y | 4. 8. 2021 19:20:55


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