Reviews & Comments of Microsoft Defender Browser Protection chrome extension

I'm removing your extension effective immediately. Leave it to Microsoft to remove something from the most popular browser to make it exclusive to their browser to try to increase market share and make you a product.. I've seen this story regarding Microsoft played out for decades and they still haven't changed. I will never use Edge and this just hardened my resolve. If I were allowed negative 5 stars, you earned it. Oh well, thanks for gift wrapping me and sending me to Brave.

What does this confusing gibberish mean: Thank you for using Microsoft Defender Browser Protection! Developer support for this extension is complete and will be expiring soon. To continue receiving protection from Microsoft, open Microsoft Edge. Open Microsoft Edge

This was a great additional layer of security, BUT, Microsoft is now using it to promote their clone of Chrome, called Edge. I think that is foul considering their Edge product is part of the same Chromium project. RIP Defender extension.

This extension told me to install Microsoft Edge.

While Microsoft has only detected and blocked one link throughout my entire installation it is good to know that the company has my back with Real Time protection for free! I'd recommend for use alongside another security solution like Google's Enhanced Safe browsing

Broken, showing all web pages as threats.

It's currently false flagging mass amounts of genuine websites as dangerous. I've had reddit, intel and Australian Government Websites all false flagged as dangerous. Extension is currently completely useless till they fix it.

Has broken, getting errors on every page I try.

Actual garbage. 100% complete garbage

It's gone mad with power. Blocked substrate.microsoft.com and login.okta.com...

This extension just caused a major outage for the company I administrate, by falsely deciding to block a number of sites we use. If you're an organisation using Chrome, my suggestion is to just enforce Google SafeBrowsing by policy and then deploy a DNS-based tool like Cloudflare Gateway or Cisco Umbrella instead of using this extension. It'll save you from Microsoft taking your business offline.

Can somebody please tell me how to disable this thing on my school computer? That would be amazing.

I had a brain fart when I installed this extension then removed it after realizing MSFT has a horrible decades long record of preventing any kind of virus.

Didn't actually even stop their "demo" page so its not clear it would stop an actual malicious site

Just added this extension to chrome, hope it's legit and does its job of protecting my device in case there's ever a shady website I accidentally stumble upon.

A good extension for basic browser security. Doesn't detect much malicious sites though as I've tested it recently. My other browser safety extensions detect it more often though. I've reported multiple sites already for malicious and/or phishing websites. Needs more signatures though, overall great extension.

I don't understand what's this? how it's work?

Edit: Still stand by my rating and review. But now I no longer need to install it as a extension since I switched to the new Edge (the Chromium based Edge). Edge has this built in. Dose exactly what it claims. Has never gotten in my way, given me a false positive etc. And it's so lightweight I don't see any reason not to install the extension.

didn't protect me against all phishing website

bro it so bad it doesnt even work i tryed microsofts OWN TEST WEBSITES and yet it just lets me go to it even if i refresh the tab it doesnt dont waste ur time this is garbage

I like it but when I go on a very dangerous website it does not stop me from getting through any suggestions?

It is good and all but how do I know that it is working? Can you please put something like how many phishing and malware it blocked? I hope you can put this in consideration.

This was SO helpful! Thanks!

very good i don't get ip loged anymore

Lite, doesn't interfere and provides great security. Excellent!

It works well to find things Google Safe Browsing misses. Doubling up on security is a good strategy.

NICE THO IF THERES PROBLEMS I WILL BE SWITCHING IT OFF

Avg to Component New 30 years old to 16 year old equipment Now works On zillions of apps from My System Thank you GPS Bible .

i hate this and i know that my school added this but when the year was over they told evryone to have their parrents to delet it but it would not go and my administrater triede tto help but she could not pls help just delet this app cuz if i dont the school said that my mom will have to pay and she does not have any money!!!!

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Great tool allowing users to combine Microsoft's and Google's Threat Intelligence when using Google Chrome :)

Is this extension only for U.S users ? I'm based in Europe !

Great extension combine with Google Safe Browsing.

Does at it describes and it doesn't cause a huge impact on Chrome's performance.

great extension

Decent. I like it.

Hello, we are a corporate Office 365 E3 customer and I am considering forcing this extension on my 700 user's Chrome browsers. We are based in South Africa. The issue is your Chrome Web Store description for this extension says "Currently supported region(s): United States". What does this "supported region" actually mean? Does it mean that only US English sites are supported, are only US-hosted websites supported, are only users coming from US-based IP addresses supported? Unfortunately "Currently supported region(s): United States" is very confusing and non-descript - can you please update the description to make it clear & meaningful?

Nice plug in. Why can't i search it on chorme web store? I could only access it through Microsoft's site.

Giving it two because I have no clue what it does. Never seen it do or alert or notify about anything, though I've had it installed since it became available. Perhaps it is worth five stars, but in that case it should sometime tell me the awesome ways it has protected me with.

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i can't verify that this is from microsoft. the webpage has a certificate issued from microsoft, but doesn't say microsoft owns the webpage. the chrome store doesn't actually say the developer is microsoft, it just links to microsoft's privacy policy. virus total has a low community trust of the webpage associated with this extension. confusing.

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I'm only rating it 1 star so Support notices the issue. The extension does not work in the latest Brave, v0.55.22 Chromium: 70.0.3538.77 Stable, x64 version. Nothing gets intercepted or blocked, meanwhile the same URL does in any other Chromium based browser.

It appeared on my browser without my permission. I am trying to get rid of it but can't find a way to uninstall.

nice

Hello, I would like to see this extension improve to become equal to or surpass the protection available in Microsoft Edge and some other products that outperform even Microsoft Edge. There is a thread at the MalwareTips Forums called, [Updated 25/7/2018] Browser extension comparison: Malwares and Phishings, where some issues with this extension have been noticed like: This extension requires a recovery time between detecting links if you try to throw more than one link at it, its detection is always worse than Microsoft Edge's by a somewhat large amount and there are several other products that usually perform better, in incognito mode the block page does not seem to work, there is possibly not a section in the privacy policy about this extension, there is not much documentation for this extension, this extension lacks a section in the forums or a support section here and emails to the support email address are possibly not replied to, on one of Microsoft's test pages this extension fails to block some of the test links / files, and so it would be nice for the developers to follow that MalwareTips thread and address these issues. I would like to also suggest adding the ability to report websites and other issues through the extension itself, maybe add ratings for search results (web, image, video, et cetera), maybe consider adding an adblocking option (like maybe forking uBlock Origin into this extension or just add some adblocking list options), add the option for automatic submission of suspicious and unknown websites et cetera, and improve malware / grayware / et cetera detection to match or surpass some of the products tested in that MalwareTips thread. This extension has potential so I hope to see it improve, thank you, and keep up the good work. -John Jr

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it good if they add more feature

great

This browser gives you the same malware protection it would on Microsoft edge. I know. However, multiple studies have found that Microsoft edge is a lot more secure than both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. I'm as surprised as you.

I am pleased to have the extra protection of Microsoft as part of my Google Chrome browsing experiences.

It even flags the official privateemail url I use for my business... Might as well block access to entire internet for not using outlook, because why not?

can never have too much protection! Gracias Microsoft!!

GREAT App Extension I Turned It Off And Used My Other extensions And They Block This Sight As Well https://www.wicar.org/test-malware.html. I Highly Recommend This App!

I am very happy with it. Another layer to security

Pointless. School force installed it, and it is redundant. Google Safe Browsing exists for a reason. Do not install.

amazing protection

This is the best.

Failed some tests at https://demo.smartscreen.msft.net/

I need to be sure, is it working or not?

I love microsoft apps for other OS or browser

i love it

i use this every day when i come in at the start and at then end of the day.. i depend on this great browser protection!

I've installed it on Chrome running on Linux Mint(v18.3 Sylvia), and appears to work,, but hard to know what it is doing, if anything.. Not sure if there is website url to test this is working or not?

great!!!!

This extension and Bing Lookup should be on other browsers as well.

When installed to chromebook (chromeos) it is marked as corrupted and repair impossible. Cannot be activated Update 04/21/2018: Apparently a swift update from Microsoft solved the problem. They probably forgot to ask permission from the user part :) It works now

love it

Seems to work

amazing

best

Execellent.. This works more than antivirus while browsing , why is not available for firefox and IE..

Combines the security of Edge with the powerful engine of Chrome.

It's working

The privacy statement is ludicrous

Nice. Latest update works for Chromebooks.

POwer of defender and brain of google. The duo rocks.

Its GREAT!!!

Pretty Good detection at malware and phishing links at 99.7% compared to Chrome. May not be exactly fit for Chromebooks...

Great concept, but buggy: -can not detect phishing site myetherwaller.com on chrome windows -seems to block this site on mac chrome, but does not put up red screen, instead just a generic browser message that site has been blocked by an extension

Does this only protect against Windows threats or Mac as well? Seems good but maybe it's not doing anything on Mac.

Work great so far. Windows 10 Entreprise.

It's a good idea, but it doesn't work on my Samsung Chromebook Plus

I'm glad to see Microsoft supporting other browsers other than their own. I find google's phishing protection satisfactory, but I'll gladly take Microsoft's protection as well.

It does work on some non-Microsoft platforms Mac despite certain people claiming otherwise. For starters it'll says the plugin is compatible or not (which it does for me and my 2017 MacBook Pro running MacOS High Sierra and Chrome 66), and secondly putting it through the paces on some test sites triggered the plugin.

Man! I've seen the rewiews and tests, Looking good ...

My school installed this despite having Chromebooks. It's useless.

This is very good!!! I would recommend it!!!

Good it protects me from auto downloading malwaere and removes the pop ups from websites

It works pretty good on Windows machines. On Chromebooks it states that this extension may have been corrupted. Please fix!

Excelente extensão.Dá-nos uma camada a mais de protecção quando navegamos online.Muito obrigado,Microsoft. :)

This uploads the hashes of all the pages you visit!

Good idea

It works with Opera on Macs but doesn't work on Chrome for Mac how ironic! I didn't expect it to work on Mac at all but I gave it a try. This is why I love Opera because I can use any Chrome Extension. It also works with Vivaldi.

working on Windows Chrome but not on chromebook. Getting the "this extension may have been corrupted" error and repair is not working.

Doesn't work on ChromeOS v.65.0.3325.209 (Official Build) (64-bit) as of 04/18/2018 7:30pm.

Cool! Welcome to the modern age!

Does not work on Linux.

This should be clear that it is for Chrome running on Windows only.

Doesn't work on Chrome OS. Well, you don't need a Microsoft tool for your Chromebook.