News August 3, 2022 Competition and Markets Authority in the UK greenlight cybersecurity merger to fend off Microsoft by Kareem Anderson
News August 20, 2020 Microsoft removes regedit ability to disable Microsoft Defender by Rabia Noureen
News July 30, 2020 Microsoft Defender Antivirus now labels free version of CCleaner as a Potentially Unwanted Application by Rabia Noureen
News February 20, 2020 Microsoft is bringing Defender ATP to iOS and Android later this year by Kareem Anderson
How-To April 1, 2019 How to stop Windows 10 from automatically sending virus samples to Microsoft by James Walker
How-To November 12, 2018 Do I need to buy antivirus software for my new Windows 10 PC? by James Walker
News April 17, 2018 Intel’s Accelerated Memory Scanning will use GPUs to make virus scans more efficient on Windows PCs by Arif Bacchus
News January 31, 2018 Coercive registry cleaners, optimizers to be removed by Windows Defender beginning March 1 by Arif Bacchus
News August 18, 2017 Over half of unprotected Windows 7 machines don’t run any AV software at all, says Microsoft by Laurent Giret
News August 10, 2017 Kaspersky drops its antitrust complaint after Microsofts agrees to cooperate with AV vendors by Arif Bacchus
News June 28, 2017 Poll: is your Windows machine fully patched, are you Petya protected? by Kip Kniskern
News November 20, 2016 Windows Defender Hub appears in Windows Store, providing help and tips for Windows Defender by Dennis Bednarz
News July 8, 2016 Avast buying antivirus tool AVG for $25 per share and $1.3 billion in total in all-cash deal by Vu Anh Nguyen
News February 29, 2016 Windows Defender includes offline scanning in latest Insider build by Laurent Giret
News October 1, 2015 Windows Defender dramatically improves antivirus protection scores by Mark Coppock