The enhanced Windows Defender, SmartScreen, boot system, and password protection are the most noticeable security improvements in Windows 8. But the new OS has even more system enhancements that ...

Microsoft's Windows Defender ATP service, which provides pre- and post-breach detection and investigation, is finally generally available for Windows 7 and 8.1.

Windows Defender is a native component of Windows 10, but the upgrade process from Windows 7 and 8.1 within the corporate environment costs both time and money. Large companies simply can’t ...

Windows Defender automatically comes with Windows 8, which saves you the cost and time burden of buying a separate application. This security tool provides the real-time protection that Microsoft ...

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 ...

The Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service can now be used to help address security issues with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 clients.

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), Microsoft's security software that combines end-point security and data collection with cloud analytics, has hitherto been unique to Windows 10.

Some Windows 7 and 8.1 users are noticing that their automatic anti-malware protection has been turned off and are seeing out-of-date virus definitions. A definition update fix is available now.

A Windows 8.1 computer can run Windows Defender and McAfee's security suite at the same time, but shouldn't run the Defender Pro security suite and McAfee's security suite simultaneously.

Originally designed for Windows 10, which integrated Defender ATP as part of the Creators Update, adding down-level support for Windows 7 SP1 and 8.1 brings this service to older systems that are ...