Microsoft has announced that its anti-malware protection is becoming available for users of macOS. Previously known as Windows Defender, the software has been renamed more broadly as "Microsoft ...

Microsoft has addressed a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Defender antivirus, exploited in the wild by threat actors before the patch was released. Zero-days are vulnerabilities actively ...

Toggle the Real-time protection switch off. You may receive a User Account Control (UAC) prompt asking if you want to allow the change to occur. Select Yes. When you're ready to turn system protection ...

Microsoft might see the Mac as a threat to its Windows platform, but that won’t stop it from protecting macOS users. The company’s Defender anti-virus software, previously a Windows exclusive, has ...

Earlier this week, the always informative Bleeping Computer reported that an update to Microsoft Defender Antivirus for Windows 10 users meant it could itself be used to download malware files. So, ...

Q. Which free anti-virus solution do you recommend we use with Windows 8.x? A. Microsoft provides a free built-in anti-virus solution called Windows Defender. This solution was initially an ...

Today Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux was made available for public preview, and a version for iOS (for iPhone and iPad) and Android were announced. The Android and iOS versions of Microsoft Defender ...

Microsoft is renaming its Windows Defender antivirus software to Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), and bringing it to macOS for the first time. Although macOS uses techniques like ...

A: Windows Defender Antivirus (known simply as Windows Defender in the past) is a fully capable means of antivirus protection for Windows PCs. Is it a replacement for other free versions of threat ...