It is possible to enable or disable Windows Defender on Windows 11 or Windows 10 PC using the Local Group Policy Editor. If you mistakenly turned on that setting in ...

A firewall is one of the first lines of defense against existential threats to your device, and most operating systems include one in some form, so you have protection even if you don't pay for robust ...

Want real security without subscriptions? These three open-source tools help you lock down your computer with no ads, no ...

Antivirus programs are comprehensive packages that not only detect and block virus types, but often also include functions to protect against phishing and ransomware as well as other features such as ...

Security software is known to cause issues such as these. The software might evaluate that it’s harming the system and block the file. It will abruptly stop the process of media creation. You may also ...

A dusty driver inside Microsoft Windows, shipping for years and years and no doubt on your own Windows PC right now, has ...

The Windows 11 Snipping Tool now has a visual search engine. You can learn more about the item you capture via a Bing search. You can also extract or translate text and even solve a math equation. The ...

Over the past year, scammers have ramped up a new way to infect the computers of unsuspecting people. The increasingly common ...

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For years, Windows has promised to integrate artificial intelligence deep within its core. With Copilot Actions, Microsoft signals a concrete step in that direction, aiming to let users offload ...

Microsoft Incident Response – Detection and Response Team (DART) researchers uncovered a new backdoor that is notable for its novel use of the OpenAI Assistants Application Programming Interface (API) ...