Microsoft extends protection for Chrome and Firefox browsers

Microsoft has announced the release of its Windows Defender extension for web browsers from foreign companies, such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

The company said its goal is to extend its own protection and containment technology to other browsers and give customers a way to protect themselves from browser attacks.

"The extension redirects unreliable browsing to Windows Defender Application Guard for Microsoft Edge," said Donna Sokar, director of the Windows Insider program, and general manager of the program, Brandon Leblanc, in a post on the blog's blog. society.

The idea of ​​Microsoft's protection mechanism is that Windows Defender verifies the URL and ensures that it appears in a list of trusted sites. If the site proves harmful, the user will be redirected to an isolated EDGE session, which constitutes a secure browsing environment that isolates the unreliable location from the rest of the operating system.

"With the following dynamic switch option, if the user tries to move to a trusted location while he is in an isolated EDGE session, he will be redirected to the default browser," he says. said Suclear and LeBlanc.

Windows Defender Application Guard is currently available to Chrome and Firefox users only in Windows 10 Windows Insiders with version 1803 and later. Microsoft intends to make this available to more users soon.