![]() ![]() The news further reinforces the importance of having antivirus software installed on your devices just in case you click a shady pop-up advertisement. The fake updates, pushed out by scammers using Magnitude exploit kits, mark a shift away from older kits that would typically take advantage of now sparsely-used or deprecated programs like Internet Explorer and Flash. Also, there are poorly designed web sites that work properly only with Edge, so when corporate policy forces one to use such a site, Edge can be enabled again with a click - and then disabled after use.Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users have been cautioned to watch out for fake updates that are in fact ransomware. Why not uninstall Edge? Because it would likely be reinstalled after any major Windows OS update, and so far, I've found disabling Edge services persists past the update - and if at a later time they're reenabled, then Edge Blocker can fix that issue with a click. This does not affect WebView2, however, so Zoom runs well with MS Edge disabled. ![]() One could open services.msc and manually disable the three critical update services, as shown below, and set GPO to disable Edge browser itself, but a third-party tool such as Sordum's Edge Blocker makes it convenient to turn MS Edge and it's update services on or of with a single click. ![]() The easiest and safest thing to do with MS Edge, if it's not wanted (nor its pseudopodia to Bing and other MS "services"), is to disable it, and to disable the update mechanism. If you remove WebView2, you will disable Zoom and other applications dependent on it. Third-party applications such as Zoom use Microsoft Edge WebView2 (I've observed Zoom running as many as eight EdgeWebview2 processes!). ![]()
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