Microsoft Defender Browser Protection

Protect yourself against online threats, like phishing and malicious websites, with real-time protection from Microsoft.

Total ratings for Microsoft Defender Browser Protection

4.18 (Rating count: 600)

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Real-time protection against known threats
Low overhead on Windows computers
Free to use
Easy to install and use
Good additional layer of browser security

Cons

Some users reporting false positives
May not detect all malicious sites
Developer support for the extension appears to be ending soon
May be used as promotion for Microsoft Edge browser
Some users experienced issues with blocked sites

Most mentioned

Additional layer of browser security
Real-time protection
Prevents access to malicious websites
May falsely block legitimate websites
Developer support ending soon
May be used as promotion for Microsoft Edge

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Recent 25 reviews for Microsoft Defender Browser Protection

Recent rating average: 2.68

All time rating average: 4.18

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Timestamp	Author	Comment
2023-04-12	Karen Roach	I compared safe browsing apps. MS Defender compares your browsing to tables of known threat actors in realtime. Anonymously. Defender, on a Windows computer has very low overhead and if you are setup to automatically download and install via Windows Update it is always current. Google permanently logs all of your browsing, keyed to your Google email ID, if you add their Safe Browsing extension. Sounds like spyware to me.
2023-02-02	Turgut Yüce	Protector
2022-12-16	Rand Nogueira	Ótima ferramenta , acrescentando mais uma camada de proteção
2022-11-30	Patrick Tippner	Gestern öffnete sich bei einigen unserer Nutzer plötzlich ein Tab mit einer Meldung des Plugins in Chrome: "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." Verstehe ich das richtig, dass das Plugin für Chrome eingestampft wird?! Es wirkt generell so, als ob Microsoft die Nutzung von Edge weiter forcieren würde. Der Homepage-Link des Plugins browserprotection.microsoft.com führt plötzlich auch nur noch auf eine allgemeine Seite mit Tips zur Nutzung von Edge.
2022-11-30	MARC RAGUSA	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
2022-11-30	KKC	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.
2022-11-29	Gregory Mason	This extension told me to install Microsoft Edge.
2022-11-29	B Vs	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.
2022-11-26	Dr.Ne0Gen3tic (Forensic Buro of Quantum)	Diese Erweiterung, ist ganz OK, es geht hier nur um geblockte Domains, diese Erweiterung enthält eine Sperrliste welche Phishing Domains und Malware verteilende Domains enthält. Wichtig, ist die Intelligente Kombination, mit anderen Erweiterungen dieser art (von anderen Malware Hersteller, einfach z.b Malware Guard eingeben, denn im Gegensatz zu, antivirensoftware ergänzen, diese Erweiterungen sich! Das hier ist keine Antivirenlösung! Es erkennt keine Malware verseuchten Dateien oder Erweiterungen an sich sondern block nur die Domains! Auch sind diese art der Erweiterungen meist Kostenlos z.b Online Security eingeben!)
2022-10-08	Matthew Kowal	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
2022-09-30	大畑乃之	サイトにアクセスする前に分析―依頼―出来る機能が有れば良い。右クリ・メニューで。
2022-06-24	Main Fighter	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.
2022-06-24	Will Potter	Broken, showing all web pages as threats.
2022-06-24	M B	Has broken, getting errors on every page I try.
2022-06-24	MetalOctopus	Actual garbage. 100% complete garbage
2022-06-24	Rhys Brennan	It's gone mad with power. Blocked substrate.microsoft.com and login.okta.com...
2022-06-23	Aaron Horler	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.
2022-06-11	Smith Liam	chromeをメインで使っているなら、要は入れておけばいいのですよ。 Microsoft Defenderと連携して動くこの拡張機能を追加で入れておくと安心できると思います。特に設定する必要もないし、拡張機能の表示言語が何であれ関係ないですよ。
2022-06-10	Дмитрий Аноним	Очень редко блокирует какие-либо сайты, а недавно это расширение стало блокировать всем известный официальный сайт Telegramm`а (https://web.telegram.org/z/)
2022-06-09	Gabriel Andrade	Boa extensão. Porém esta bloqueando sites conhecidos e válidos. Fiz uma pesquisa no Google e apareceu mensagem de "site perigoso", entrei na Amazon e apareceu a mesma mensagem. Algo está errado com essa extensão!
2022-06-09	geovanedps	ótima ferramenta porem na data de hoje bloqueio sites validos, sugiro verificação.
2022-05-26	Max Wilke	Can somebody please tell me how to disable this thing on my school computer? That would be amazing.
2022-04-29	Mc	me encanto que bloqueara las paginas emergentes ahora si puedo ver nopor xd
2022-04-19	Hikari N	windows10以降で市販のセキュリティーソフトを入れないなら必須らしい。日本語対応したら☆５。
2022-04-05	J J	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.