The Windows Defender antivirus program, also known as Windows Security, comes installed with Windows 11/10. It is an antimalware scanning tool that lets you boot and scan from a trusted environment.

Instead of relying on a Quick or Full scan, users can use the Windows Defender "Custom scan" feature and select the drives or folders they'd like scanned, manually, one by one. Updated on ...

If you think your PC is infected with some kind of malware or you just want to do a scan as part of a digital cleanup, Windows has a built-in security tool that can help you on your way — no ...

If Windows Defender finds anything during a scan it’ll give you the option to quarantine or delete that item. If it’s a file you’ve downloaded, always choose delete.

Windows Defender Offline runs in an environment on your PC that doesn't let Windows 10 boot. And it's much easier to remove malware that's deeply embedded in an OS when the OS isn't running. You ...

For network scanning to be enabled, the DisableScanningNetworkFiles must be set to False. So what happened? It seems that in the older Windows Defender engines network scanning was enabled by default.

Microsoft has released a new update for Windows Defender that has broken both the Quick and Full antivirus scans. When users use these scan options, Windows Defender will only scan approximately ...

Windows Defender users also ran into problems with Microsoft's built-in antivirus in September, though in that case both Quick Scan and Full Scan were complete within seconds because Windows ...

If a double-click is not opening the Windows Defender Scans folder on your Windows 11/10 computer, this post will help you. Usually, a virus infection, ...

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 ...

Microsoft's Windows Defender antivirus has a new job, heading up Windows Defender Security Center and uniting all the OS safety features in one convenient location. ... and when the last scan was.

Windows 10 is building in an additional line of defense against malware with some new features for Windows Defender, Microsoft’s pre-installed antivirus. The update is called Limited Periodic ...