Although the environment that offers us Windows 11 sure, he operating system most used, the truth is that to protect it from cybercriminals it does not stop including different new features, and the latest update comes to protect us from those passwords that we reuse and that we write down in places that we should not, such as the Notepad or in a Excel.
And now thanks to the last update for the Windows 11 operating system, we will be warned every time we are entering a password in places that we shouldn’t, such as Notepad or Excel, a practice that is not recommended at all and cybercriminals know that very well.
And now with the update Windows 11 22H2 we have a feature called “enhanced phishing protection” that warns us when we enter our login password. Windows in unsafe applications or on websites.
This has basically been created for those users who like to save their login credentials in word processors, text editors and spreadsheets, but luckily now Windows will let us know.
“SmartScreen identifies and protects against corporate password entry on reported phishing sites or apps that connect to phishing sites, password reuse on any app or site, and passwords entered in Notepad, Wordpad, or Microsoft 365 apps“, Explain Sinclair Hamiltonsecurity product manager at Microsoft, via Bleepingcomputer.
This new feature is only available in the latest Windows 11 update and is enabled by default, so it remains to be seen if it also reaches Windows 10 users.
When enabled, the operating system will detect when we enter our Windows password and then issue a warning asking us to remove the password from a particular place or even change it.
Although phishing protection is enabled by default, this particular password prompt feature is disabled.
How to activate it in Windows 11
If you want to enable it, you must do the following: go to Windows 11 settings, then to “privacy and security”, then to “Windows security”, then to “application and browser control”, and to “web-based protection settings”. reputation”.
Now we will see the “protection against identity theft” section, with two new options that we must activate, such as “warn me about password reuse” and “warn me about insecure password storage”.
The first option will show us an alert when we enter our Windows password on a website. While the second option will notify us when we type our password in an application such as Notepad, Word and then press enter.
It is highly recommended that you can activate it in Windows 11, although at the moment it does not work in all browsers and applications.