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Restore firewalls to default

Sure enough: This command restores all your firewall adjustments to their

factory settings. (You’re asked to confirm.)

App & Browser Control

This page is the home of SmartScreen, an anti-phishing technology (see the
box on the next page). If you try to open a downloaded file (or app), or visit
a website, that Microsoft knows is suspicious, it blocks your path with a
warning banner (Figure 11-3).

SmartScreen works by comparing the file or site against a massive list of
websites and file downloads that have been reported to Microsoft as unsafe.

This page offers four sets of controls:

Check apps and files. When Windows discovers you’re trying to

open a program or a file download that’s been reported as malware,
how would you like it to respond? Block the app, just warn you, or
go ahead and open it (Off)?

SmartScreen for Microsoft Edge. When you’re using Edge, and
you try to open a known phishing site, what would you like it to
do? Block you, just warn you, or go ahead and open it (Off)?

SmartScreen for Microsoft Store apps. You remember Microsoft
Store apps, right (“Microsoft Store Apps”)? Sometimes, they reach

to the web to retrieve data (think of, for example, a weather app). If
you choose Warn here, then Windows will alert you if it thinks an
app is trying to pull suspicious data from the web.