Available as a public beta, a new version of Windows Defender is designed to run off a CD or USB stick to scan your PC for malware before Windows loads. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer ...

Windows Defender will now detect when accessibility programs such as sethc.exe or utilman.exe have been hijacked by an Image File Execution Options debugger so that they can be used as a backdoor. For ...

Microsoft has released a new security tool for Windows PCs called Windows Defender Offline Tool which you can use to scan you computer for malware before Windows even boots. Windows Defender Offline ...

Learn how to open and configure Windows Defender settings in Windows 11 to protect your PC from viruses and online threats.

A security researcher built a program that the OS sees as an antivirus Since two AV programs can't run at the same time, Windows Defender turns itself off Previous iteration was taken down for ...

The Windows Defender Prevented Malicious Software Scam is a Trojan from the Trojan.Tech-Support-Scam family that displays a fake Windows login screen that pretends that the Windows defender has ...

Microsoft has resolved an issue in Windows Defender tool that caused the antivirus scans run by the utility to fail after a few seconds. The company said the issue has been resolved in "Security ...

Windows Defender is free and therefore should be a part of your desktop antispyware collection. Still, it's best to get a second opinion, probably from your name-brand antivirus-plus-software ...

Some PC users may encounter Windows Defender error code 0x8050800c while updating Microsoft Defender or running a scan on their Windows 11 or Windows 10 device. If ...