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 ...

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 ...

Update: This issue is now resolved in "Security Intelligence Update for Windows Defender Antivirus - KB2267602 (Version 1.301.1684.0)" definitions. Microsoft has released a new update for Windows ...

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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 ...

You can now go to your Desktop and check the right-click context menu. It should be similar to what is shown in the first image of this article. The benefit of the manual method is that you can add ...

On Windows 11, you can manage various settings and features from Microsoft Defender Antivirus, and in this guide, I'll show you how. Waiting on end-users to interact with apps is annoying. Luckily, ...

My dell laptop which I believe is compromised, I have done a lot of full scans and it found over 10,000+ of threats last week. Thing is I then did a few other full scans and it didn't find anything.

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 ...