Microsoft's free antivirus comes built-in to Windows 8 as Windows Defender, but it doesn't have an option to scan individual files by right-clicking on them. Our friends at the How-To Geek show us how ...

If when you attempt to run a Microsoft Defender scan on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 device, but the AV scan fails and you receive the error code 0x8007139f, then ...

There are three ways to disable or enable Network scanning in Windows Defender on Windows 11/10. Each of these will allow network scanning. There is no output for this command, so you will have to ...

There are some situations where you might want to temporarily disable Windows' built-in security tool. I'll show you how to do it safely.

Microsoft this week announced that its Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management solution can now scan Windows devices that are lacking certain agent support. This capability, called "authenticated ...

Microsoft has been building firmware-level defenses into Windows 10 Secured-Core PCs for the enterprise, and now it's bringing similar capabilities to its enterprise antivirus software, Microsoft ...

I prefer to have all my scheduled system tasks centralised...so I'd like to schedule a Defender scan using the *Vista's Task Scheduler*, rather than configuring it with the scan options in Defender ...

Microsoft has patched today a Windows Defender SmartScreen zero-day exploited in the wild by a financially motivated threat group to deploy the DarkMe remote access trojan (RAT). For Windows users who ...

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Windows 11 finally lets users turn Smart App Control on or off without a clean install or reset. The fix arrived in Insider ...

Free tool reports on the speed, stability and security of Windows machines BitDefender ®, an award winning provider of innovative internet security solutions, has announced the release of the free ...