A really simple fix for the Windows Defender alert that states items were skipped during a scan has been discovered and it involves just enabling network scanning. Over the weekend, we reported that ...

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 ...

Many Windows users attempt to open the Windows Defender Scans folder to remove Windows Defender history but find that they can’t access it. If a double-click is not opening the Windows Defender Scans ...

Windows users have a built-in antivirus program that is expected to be on the job looking for viruses and other threats that could compromise the security of a computer. A major bug has been reported ...

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 ...

Famous Last Words: "This never happened before." In addition to letting Windows Defender do whatever it wants automatically, I've done Full scans whenever I remember (aspiring to weekly), with no ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows 8 ships with a new version of Windows Defender that’s supposed to offer the same level of protection as Microsoft Security Essentials . Along with other security upgrades, we’re left wondering ...

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 ...