Microsoft claims Windows Defender is all the protection you need. The evidence from real-world testing—and competing security ...

Microsoft wants Windows 11 owners to stop worrying about buying antivirus software. In statements reported by PCMag and Windows Central earlier this year, the company called its built-in Windows ...

Windows remains one of the most targeted systems by threat actors by volume, according to recent statistics from AV-TEST, with threats ranging from ...

Although the team with Microsoft moved swiftly to patch the BlueHammer vulnerability, other exploits still threaten Microsoft Defender and Windows users.

Microsoft releases new Windows Defender update packages very frequently to protect against various newly discovered malware. Once a while every three months or so, the company also pushes out these ...

Windows Defender supports Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003. Microsoft's Windows Defender product manager Mike Chan says the anti-spyware utility, which was originally acquired when ...

Microsoft is ending Windows 10 support for most users on October 14, 2025 and the company has been urging users to upgrade to Windows 11. But in what seems to be a tacit acknowledgment that a lot of ...

Microsoft fixed a Defender false positive that flagged legitimate DigiCert certificates as malware, disrupting Windows trust ...

Windows Defender has several security settings, including some you need to switch on to get the utmost protection. Here's why ...

Microsoft Defender is detecting legitimate DigiCert root certificates as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha, resulting in ...

Microsoft has resolved an issue that breaks multiple Microsoft 365 Defender features using the network data reporting service after installing July's Windows Server updates. The Microsoft 365 Defender ...

Microsoft Defender (previously Windows Defender) has been a part of the Windows operating system since the early 2000s, with Microsoft improving and iterating on it up to the present — and presumably ...