Microsoft's free antivirus comes built-in to Windows 8 as Windows Defender, but it doesn't have an option to scan individual files by right-clicking on them. Our friends at the How-To Geek show us how ...

A really simple fix for the Windows Defender alert that states items were skipped during a scan has been discovered and it involves just enabling network scanning. Over the weekend, we reported that ...

If you get the Windows Defender Error 1297 when you try to launch the app or when running a scan on your Windows 11/10 device, you can try our recommended solutions ...

Microsoft this week announced that its Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management solution can now scan Windows devices that are lacking certain agent support. This capability, called "authenticated ...

Many Windows users attempt to open the Windows Defender Scans folder to remove Windows Defender history but find that they can’t access it. If a double-click is not opening the Windows Defender Scans ...

Available as a public beta, a new version of Windows Defender is designed to run off a CD or USB stick to scan your PC for malware before Windows loads. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer ...

Famous Last Words: "This never happened before." In addition to letting Windows Defender do whatever it wants automatically, I've done Full scans whenever I remember (aspiring to weekly), with no ...

There's currently a major bug in Windows Defender, the free antivirus software that ships with Windows 10. Running a Quick or Full scan will fail after a few seconds and only go through a handful of ...

Few Windows 10 users will be surprised to hear that Microsoft has issued a Windows 10 update that has caused problems. This time out, an update for Windows Defender appears to have rendered the ...