Learn how to open and configure Windows Defender settings in Windows 11 to protect your PC from viruses and online threats.

Microsoft is introducing a new scareware sensor for the Microsoft Edge web browser, which helps detect scam pages more ...

Microsoft is giving its popular Windows Defender antivirus utility a name change, and it is reflective of the company's increasingly important (and lucrative) decision to branch into cross-platform ...

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Microsoft Defender for Linux is coming. This is what you need to know Your email has been sent When Defender came to macOS as well as Windows, Microsoft announced that the name of the software was ...

Microsoft's built-in security software has improved enormously, but it still has a few shortcomings. A reader writes in to ask: Can it get the job done as well as a third-party antivirus utility?

A Microsoft Defender SmartScreen vulnerability patched in November has found fresh active exploitation in a Phemedrone information-stealing malware campaign, according to cybersecurity research and ...