You can also put Microsoft Family Safety apps (opens in new tab) on your children’s Android and iOS devices but this requires a paid subscription to Microsoft Office 365. Likewise, for the parental controls to work properly, your kids have to use Edge and no other browser on Windows. Microsoft does have browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox but they’re limited to machines running the Pro, Enterprise or Education versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11. To be fair though, the protection offered by Chrome and Firefox is pretty good on its own. Check Turn on real-time protection again and click Save Changes.As a result, if your Chrome or Firefox browser is used to visit a malicious website, you’ll have to rely on the browser’s own protection, not Microsoft’s. Select Real-time protection from the left side of the Settings panel.

Be sure to re-enable Real-time Protection scanning at computers where necessary. Click Save Changes at the bottom of the window.Ĥ. Names shown in these illustrations will not apply to your Workplace Monitor installation.ģ. When the file selection box closes, the folder is added to the Excluded Files list. Use the file selection box to navigate to the folder where Workplace Monitor files are installed and select it. Click Add to add the name to exclusions list.įor older versions of Security Essentials, in the right pane, click the Add button to open a file selection box. Depending on the version of Microsoft Security Essentials, use one of the following interfaces to add files to the exclusion list.Ĭopy and paste the Workplace Monitor folder name you obtained from the installation in the File Locations box.

Select the Settings tab and Excluded Files & Locations. Exclude Workplace Monitor from Microsoft Security Essentials scanningĢ.

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