If Microsoft Defender has begun issuing warnings on your gaming PC for a “Winring0 vulnerable driver,” you have a major choice to make: you can set an exception and exempt popular RGB and fan control ...

Windows Defender will not update its definitions if Windows Updates is not set to Install updates automatically in Windows 11/10/8.1/8. If for some reason you have changed your settings and preferred ...

Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in most of the west and several system admins across multiple IT companies definitely felt that yesterday. That's because Microsoft Defender went rogue and ...

The latest version of Windows Defender has a bug that causes Quick and Full scans to fail. Real time scanning still works for Windows Defender despite the bug. Microsoft confirmed that the company is ...

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Your PC is capable of running not one, but two Windows apps designed to protect you and your system against online threats: Windows Security and Microsoft Defender. Telling them apart can be tricky, ...

Microsoft has rolled out a fix for a recent update that has been causing the Windows Defender built-in antivirus software to crash on Windows 10 PCs when running a full system scan. With around half a ...

Microsoft has added tamper protection to its antivirus product Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) to prevent the common malware tactic of disabling antivirus on infected PCs. The new ...

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