TL;DR Introduction  It’s more common than you might think to miss built-in defences. Windows has a lot of features that help ...

The ClickFix campaign disguises malware as legitimate Windows updates, using steganography to hide shellcode in PNG files and ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Kaspersky Premium for Windows was given two “ADVANCED+” awards, the highest possible, for successfully passing the AV-Comparatives Malware Protection evaluation with a 99.99% rate and receiving a ...

Windows Sandbox has been indispensable in helping me test suspicious applications.

Hackers continuously target Windows users by exploiting existing vulnerabilities or installing malware. Security experts found a new type of malware that spreads through fake human verification pages.

The March 2025 Malware Protection Test evaluated the ability of 19 leading security products to detect and prevent infections from a wide range of malware threats. Unlike other tests focusing solely ...

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We explore how Windows Security and Microsoft Defender protect your Windows 11 computer and why you might want to consider an alternative. Dianna Gunn built her first WordPress website in 2008. Since ...

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