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

All Windows PCs come with a built-in security feature called Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC), which helps prevent unauthorized software from running by allowing only trusted applications.

Windows Defender is a capable antivirus solution built into Windows itself. Unless you’ve installed a different antivirus ...

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 ...

In a proof-of-concept, a security researcher demonstrated how the Windows Security Center API can be used to block the scans by Microsoft’s built-in antivirus tool. Windows Defender can be tricked ...

PC World has outlined five Microsoft Defender settings it says can improve security and performance on new Windows PCs, while PCMag highlights areas where the built-in antivirus falls short of ...