Windows acting suspicious? Learn how to find out whether someone is remote accessing your Windows PC and how to stop them.

If you have a third-party security tool, go ahead and use it to scan; if not, run Windows Defender Offline scan. Once it has completely scanned your system, it will ask you to remove the malicious ...

Analyzing the installer file, Reddit users noticed that it was named 'Windows Defender SmartScreen.exe ... dev' has been taken offline. Users that installed the game have likely infected their ...

What just happened? PC gamers recently encountered an unexpected issue when their computers triggered Windows Defender alerts due to a kernel-level driver called WinRing0. This software ...

A “HackTool” called WinRing0 had suddenly started triggering a Windows Defender alert, as if their PCs were under attack. Some of those computers even began behaving oddly — like ...

Microsoft published a new Defender update for Windows 11/10/Server installation images last month. This update package is necessary as a Windows installation image may contain old, outdated anti ...

eliminating the option for offline installation altogether. Microsoft defends this decision by emphasizing improvements in security and user experience, but the practical result has been increased ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is moving the company’s HR chief ...

Microsoft giveth with one hand but taketh away with the other Windows Insiders will soon get their hands on Microsoft's ...

Here’s how it works. There was nothing particularly exciting about DOS or Microsoft, at least back then. It was pervasive but not iconic. If I'm being honest, I didn't even know who ran the ...

In this episode of Microsoft Weekly, we look at an absolutely massive list of new Windows 11 preview builds with pretty big changes, new non-security updates for Windows 11 and 10, reviews of some ...