Both the free and paid editions of TotalAV have a column of three icons at the far left, representing Home, Total Security, ...

While most of your taskbar now closely resembles Windows XP, clicking the Start menu still reveals the Windows 11 design. To ...

Unpatched vulnerabilities are always critical means for compromising enterprise systems, but attacker activity around certain ...

Microsoft confirms the safety of websites through reputable sources to verify their legitimacy, and the site you’re trying to visit has been flagged as unsafe. We recommend you don’t share any ...

Microsoft Defender SmartScreen protects against phishing or malware websites and applications, and the downloading of potentially malicious files. Microsoft Defender SmartScreen provide an early ...

Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson says a tech support scam used a fake Windows Defender pop-up, tricking the victim to ...

Microsoft has confirmed a critical vulnerability in Windows Defender that could leak file content data but advised users to do nothing—here’s why.

Microsoft Defender offers solid baseline protection against malware, but sometimes, you might want to disable it. Here's how ...

Here’s what she described: "I received a pop-up that froze my computer and read, ‘Access to this system is blocked for security reasons’ from Windows Defender Security Center. It came with ...

Microsoft Defender, which is built into Windows, can do this too. (Microsoft changed the name from Windows Defender several years ago, but it’s the same program.) Some antivirus suites also run ...