Over the weekend, security researcher Abdelhamid Naceri (also known as Nightmare Eclipse) released another Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit that blocks antivirus updates.

Microsoft Defender security intelligence update 1.459.576.0 is rolling out under KB2267602. Here is how to check your version ...

Four toggles, one BIOS setting, zero problems so far.

Microsoft has resolved a bug that caused Windows Defender to crash after a recent security update, resulting in 0xc0000005 access violation errors on some affected systems. Microsoft Defender is a ...

Microsoft has a new Defender anti-virus update for Windows 11 and 10 images. The new update patches several flaws.

Want to know how to disable Windows Defender in Windows 11? In this step-by-step tutorial, I’ll show you how to turn off Microsoft Defender Antivirus and manage Windows Security settings on your ...

BigDiskBuster can block Microsoft Defender updates by filling disk space, leaving detection content stale; no patch or advisory exists.

Microsoft Defender has gone from a placeholder to something you can reasonably trust. For a lot of people, Defender is good enough. But that’s the part that people may miss. “Good enough” depends on ...

Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Integrated Security Operations Center in Microsoft Defender as it rebuilds its security ...

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 ...

A patch Microsoft released on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Defender security engine may cause Windows machines to write files large enough to completely consume available disk ...

To disable Microsoft Defender on Windows 11, go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Windows Security > Virus & Threat Protection, click Manage Settings, and toggle off ...