The Protection History page shows detections by Windows Defender and provides detailed and easier-to-understand information about threats and available actions. It now includes Controlled Folder ...

When you click on Public network, the following panel will become visible. Toggle the Windows Defender Firewall switch to the Off position. Do the same for Domain network and Private network as well.

Windows Defender Antivirus comes pre-installed as standard with Windows 11. In numerous tests, Windows Defender Antivirus ...

Windows Security and Microsoft Defender. Telling them apart can be tricky, though. Thanks to a few name changes, what’s old ...

The Microsoft Defender in Windows Security provides basic protection ... You can choose to monitor over 60 types of personal ...

Find out more about how we test. Microsoft Defender Antivirus doesn’t get much respect when it comes to security, but it’s been around defending our Windows devices for a long time.

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 ...

The big new addition with this release is the Windows Defender Application Control for Business (WDAC), which, as the name suggests, adds some new security features for Windows Server 2025.