Microsoft brings its antivirus coverage to Google ’s Chrome browser

Microsoft is liberating its Home Windows Defender antivirus scanner for Google Chrome this week. The device large has launched a Chrome extension, that incorporates an inventory of malicious URLs for you to be blocked in Chrome. The extension is designed to prevent malware being loaded onto desktops from malicious websites, and to forestall phishing emails from being a success.

Google already supplies its personal protections against malicious links within Chrome, so Microsoft ’s addition does appear superfluous. Microsoft does claim that its Windows Defender coverage against phishing is NINETY NINE % efficient, compared to 87 percent and 70 p.c for Firefox. So, if you ’re in particular eager about malicious hyperlinks then this extension will provide an additional shield. Microsoft ’s Home Windows Defender Chrome extension is obtainable now from the Chrome Web Retailer.