Ideally, we would lock down our operating systems to allow only those applications we want to have running. For many companies, however, investigating what software is running in their networks takes ...

Microsoft has released a new tool called Windows Defender Offline Tool. While most other security tools remove malware after Windows has started, they cannot remove some hard-to-remove malware like ...

They say with great power comes great responsibility, and you would think Windows Defender would be incredibly responsible -- at least when it comes to security. As it turns out, however, that Windows ...

Microsoft has removed the ability to download files using Windows Defender after it was demonstrated how it could be used by attackers to download malware onto a computer. Last week, we reported that ...

It might have a legit looking phone number, but that Windows Defender alert might be fake. Here's what to look out for.

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