After rebranding Windows Defender as Microsoft Defender in early 2019, Microsoft is renaming and bringing more products under the Defender brand, the company announced today at its yearly Ignite ...

Microsoft’s cross-platform version of Windows Defender, now known as Microsoft Defender for Individuals, is now live: an attractive way to protect your Android phone as well as your PC. If you merely ...

It’s imperative to keep Microsoft Defender up to date even when Windows Update isn’t working. Here are several methods to manually update Defender. Microsoft Defender is the built-in anti-malware ...

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Microsoft 'Defender' Service to Protect Android, iOS, MacOS Devices The company adds a new perk to Microsoft 365 subscriptions called Microsoft Defender, which offers cross-platform protection against ...

Microsoft announced the brand change from Windows Defender to Microsoft Defender in March after giving security analysts the tools to inspect enterprise Mac computers for malware via the Microsoft ...

Your PC is capable of running not one, but two Windows apps designed to protect you and your system against online threats: Windows Security and Microsoft Defender. Telling them apart can be tricky, ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...