Microsoft’s built-in security tool has improved over the years, and it still blocks plenty of everyday threats. But the latest news — along with a wave of scams abusing the Windows Defender name — ...

A Dec. 12 posting to Microsoft’s security update guide has confirmed that a Windows Defender vulnerability, rated as critical according to Microsoft itself, could have enabled an attacker who ...

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 ...

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