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 ...

After many years of relying on third-party antivirus programs, Windows users finally got the first-party solution from Microsoft in the form of Windows Defender. With Windows 11, the tool comes ...

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 ...

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 ...

I prefer to have all my scheduled system tasks centralised...so I'd like to schedule a Defender scan using the *Vista's Task Scheduler*, rather than configuring it with the scan options in Defender ...

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 ...

The bug was triggered when the software's malware protection engine scanned a rigged file. Microsoft has quietly fixed a serious bug in its Windows Defender antivirus software that allowed hackers to ...