Microsoft Defender had one of the rare moments of not being at the best in AV-TEST's previous result. The product suffered a heavy defeat and came in last place. This is the opposite of what typically ...

Ever since Windows 11 came out, Microsoft has made a big fuss over why its new operating system is the most secure Windows OS ever. The company constantly nudges users who are on older Windows ...

Microsoft Defender now automatically detects and notifies users with a Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscription when they're connected to unsecured Wi-Fi networks. The Defender privacy protection ...

Microsoft 365 Defender users are getting a public preview of the ability to set custom detection rules for near real-time security events, according to a Monday announcement. Microsoft described some ...

Threat actors can take advantage of a weakness that affects Microsoft Defender antivirus on Windows to learn locations excluded from scanning and plant malware there. The issue has persisted for at ...

There is a reason that Bitdefender Free Antivirus is our pick for the best lightweight alternative to Microsoft Defender - it doesn't have any unnecessary bells and whistles that could impact ...

If you want to run a scan, all you need to do is head to Virus & Threat Protection and hit "Scan." If you want more control, ...

Microsoft’s free built-in security software for Windows PCs, Defender Antivirus, provides excellent anti-malware protection for Windows PCs. However, it lacks some extras found in third-party products ...

As hackers and scammers continue to plague the online safety of computer users across the globe with phishing schemes and computer-crashing viruses, it's arguably never been more important to have ...

Microsoft has brought its Defender for Cloud security system for weeding out configuration weaknesses in workloads to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The extension of Defender for Cloud brings the ...