If you do not have any antimalware installed on the computer, you are running Windows Defender by default. It is good for home users, and for people with regular need for Internet, the Windows ...

Windows Defender supports Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003. Microsoft's Windows Defender product manager Mike Chan says the anti-spyware utility, which was originally acquired when ...

A recent update to Microsoft Defender has led some Windows users to lose shortcuts to their programs. The bizarre issue resulted in Windows icons and applications shortcuts being removed from the ...

Microsoft Defender Antivirus differs from other free antivirus tools in that there's no installation required. If you’re running Windows, you already have it. When you click the Defender icon in the ...

Alongside of the announcement of Windows 10 Insider Preview build 18358 in the Fast ring, Microsoft announced that it's releasing a Windows Defender Application Guard extension for Chrome and Firefox.

Windows 10's built-in antivirus tool Microsoft Defender uses threat signatures, behavioral detection, and machine learning models to automatically detect and block suspicious files, folders, and ...

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, ...

When performing a full antivirus scan using Windows Defender, a recent definition update or Windows update is causing the program to crash in the middle of a scan. We first heard about this issue from ...