Today, we will be discussing another safety feature of Microsoft Defender, which is the Exploit Guard.
Exploit Guard, as the name suggests, prevents your box from being exploited by online threats and malware.
One of the components of the Exploit Guard is connection Protection.
This feature is somewhat similar toSmartScreen.
However, SmartScreen is only limited to theMicrosoft Edge internet tool.
Instead, it can only be configured using the Group Policies or WindowsPowerShell.
Note:All of the following commands and steps are to be performed in anelevated PowerShellinstance.
Let us start by checking the current status of the web connection Protection feature.
More importantly, it also shows 4 different attributes.
Toenable telemetry:
Replace true with false to disable telemetry.
The connection Protection feature is similar to SmartScreen but is implemented across the whole system.
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