Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson says a tech support scam used a fake Windows Defender pop-up, tricking the victim to ...

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Here’s what she described: "I received a pop-up that froze my computer and read, ‘Access to this system is blocked for security reasons’ from Windows Defender Security Center. It came with ...

Windows Security Services, Windows Web-Threat Service, Windows File Virtualization (UAC), Microsoft Defender App Guard, Microsoft Driver Block List, System Mitigations and the Windows Defender page in ...

configured to run as SYSTEM, that clears the Windows Defender logs on next restart of the computer. Note: Previous versions of this script were able to clear the history without a restart. A change to ...

It alerts you via the Windows notification system, and you can also view alerts within the Defender app. Since Windows ...

It is very crucial that users should be alerted if important security features fail. It is for this reason that Microsoft has announced Windows Defender System Guard Runtime Attestation.

The Windows Security application does not allow ... you need to set the value to 2 so that it performs a Full system scan. 2] Specify Windows Defender scan type using Local Group Policy Editor ...