Microsoft makes potentially unwanted apps (PUA) blocking easier in Windows 10 version 2004

Microsoft has improved the functionality of Windows Defender significantly since the release of the company's Windows 10 operating system in 2015. Windows 10 version 2004, the next Windows 10 feature release, will include a new option to enable the blocking of potentially unwanted apps (PUA) using Windows Defender. The feature itself is not new but it has never been exposed in the Settings before. System administrators and experienced users could enable it via group policies, Windows PowerShell or the Windows Registry in previous versions of Windows 10. So-called PUAs -- sometimes also referred to as Potentially Unwanted Programs or PUPs… [Continue Reading]