Disabling Windows Defender may be preferable for users relying on third-party antivirus software. As Windows Defender is ...

Every Windows 10 PC has a registry and you can use it to change settings and disable Windows Defender. If you use this method, make sure you’re incredibly careful.

Support for Windows Defender running inside a sandbox environment has been silently added since Windows 10 version 1703. To enable it right now, Windows 10 users can follow these steps: ...

Windows 10 and your PC will now restart and boot into the Windows Recovery Environment where it will perform a quick scan using Windows Defender. This process will take up to 15 minutes to finish ...

Windows Defender Security Center shows all its categories on the main screen, as well as in a lefthand menu. Instead of three tabs at the top, the new Defender has an icon-based menu on the left side.

Windows Defender has been around for some time in its current form, but that's about to change. It will soon become a Windows app. As you may have heard by now, Microsoft’s recent Windows 10 ...

New features in a nutshell: Windows Defender in Windows 10 has improved tamper protection, registry and folder modification tampering, and real-time protection service hardening ...

Windows Defender Antivirus offers four different types of scans that can be used in different cases. These scans include Quick Scan, Full Scan, Custom Scan, and Offline Scan.

Unfortunately, Windows Defender is setting the counters to mode 2 at random intervals for random durations of time. This can occur while a PC is booting up or at any point afterward.

Windows Defender allows you to perform a Custom scan that lets you specify the specific folder or drive you would like to scan for malware. As you only need to scan that one folder, the scan time ...

Furthermore, the issue doesn't appear to impact Windows Defender on Windows 10, but also all other Windows versions where Windows Defender ships, such as Windows 8 and 8.1.

But something in my mind had switched. Call me quick to judge, but I'd placed my faith in Windows Defender, and it had somehow let me down. From now on, I thought, Bitdefender Free shall be my shield.