Formerly known as Windows Defender, Microsoft Defender is an antivirus protection program that's included with Windows 10.

"Microsoft have identified that a code bug in the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint logic that fetches vulnerabilities for Dell ...

Microsoft has introduced a new Microsoft Defender capability named "performance mode" for developers on Windows 11, tuned to reduce the impact of antivirus scans when analyzing files stored on Dev ...

When you launch Windows Security on Windows 11, you may see a message You’re using other antivirus providers. This prevents you from activating the Real-time protection of Windows Defender against ...

In this post, we will show you the differences between the different types of virus scans provided by Windows Security. Windows Defender, or Windows Security/Microsoft Defender Antivirus in Windows 11 ...

In a proof-of-concept, a security researcher demonstrated how the Windows Security Center API can be used to block the scans by Microsoft’s built-in antivirus tool. Windows Defender can be tricked ...