Formerly known as Windows Defender, Microsoft Defender is an antivirus protection program that's included with Windows 10. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

Support for Windows Defender running inside a sandbox environment has been silently added since Windows 10 version 1703. To enable it right now, Windows 10 users can follow these steps: ...

You can follow these troubleshooting suggestions when Windows Defender Exclusions are not working on Windows 11 PC. ... For example, if the path of an image file named my-image.png is this: C: ...

Microsoft made some much needed changes to Windows Defender with the Creators Update. The built-in anti-virus app is renamed the Windows Defender Security Center, and as that name suggests, it’s ...

Microsoft's stock Windows Defender app protects your Windows 8 PC against all sorts of nasties, but OEMs can disable the software to install an antivirus trial. Here's how to turn it back on.

Microsoft releases new Defender update package for Windows 11/10/Server install images to patch outdated protection.

These alerts stated that "Windows Defender Antivirus scan skipped an item due to an exclusion or network scanning settings" but did not provide any further information as to what was causing it.

Instead, it sits in a Windows system called a “dynamic-link library,” and Windows Defender only loads it when needed. Once the driver is done working, it gets wiped from the disk again.

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 ...

Defender is very nice feature from within Windows 10 ( or Essentials on Windows 7). You dont need extra AV tool. We have seen AV SW selling data and clickbaiting users for a very long time.

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 ...

Windows Defender has SmartScreen which helps detect dangerous websites that have been identified, but it lacks the advanced AI-based filtering that Trend Micro provides against newly created sites.