Edge not blocking virus test files

[Guest Edward West (e.west)]

Hi All,We have recently had to go through Cyber Essentials Plus as an organisation, which we managed to pass using a workaround, however, I would like to find a long term fix.Basically as part of the test your browsers have to block certain harmful files, Google Chrome blocked them all fine, but Edge let 2 of them download and RUN!The 2 files were Test.bat (ideally we would like to block all .bat files from being run without Admin Elevation Prompt) and Calc.exe. The only workaround I could think of as we were running low on time was to block ALL downloads in Edge, which long term is not a solu

 

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