The always-on Microsoft Defender is meant to regularly check your computer for malware and viruses, but you can turn it off.

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

Akira ransomware is abusing a legitimate Intel CPU tuning driver to turn off Microsoft Defender in attacks from security tools and EDRs running on target machines.

A Phemedrone information-stealing malware campaign exploits a Microsoft Defender SmartScreen vulnerability (CVE-2023-36025) to bypass Windows security prompts when opening URL files.

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

Today, in our continuing series of Windows 8 tips and tricks, we're going to look at closing Windows 8 Metro apps, and how to work with SmartScreen -- a new feature in Windows 8 that prevents you ...