Windows 10 and 11 users are seeing a Defender warning that isn’t real

Microsoft confirmed a bug in recent Defender updates that's triggering incorrect "antivirus disabled" warnings across Windows ...
Windows Latest

Windows 11 is warning “Virus protection is off,” Microsoft confirms it’s false, but verify if Defender is actually enabled

If Windows 11 is sending alerts that you need to turn on virus protection and your PC is unprotected, don't worry.
Windows Report on MSN

New Microsoft Defender update lands for Windows ISO images

Microsoft updates Defender for Windows 11, Windows 10, and Server installation images with security intelligence version 1.455.50.0.

‘Antivirus Is Turned Off’—Microsoft Confirms Windows Update Mistake

Per Windows Latest, “in our tests, we found that the Windows Security app, which manages Microsoft Defender Antivirus, ...

Microsoft Defender update causes scans to crash

A bad security intelligence update causes Microsoft Defender to crash during Full and Quick Scans on some PCs. Upgrading to ...
PCMag on MSN

Disgruntled Researcher Discloses New Zero-Day in Windows Antivirus

The 'ShieldBreak' flaw can let an attacker use Windows Defender to escalate their privileges on the OS. Microsoft previously threatened legal action against the researcher, Nightmare Eclipse.

Microsoft Weekly: New Windows 11 context menu, broken Defender scans, GTA 6 leaks, and more0 0

Catch up with this week's Microsoft stories in our latest recap. See what was broken by the last Patch Tuesday update, the ...
Ars Technica

Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk

A patch Microsoft released on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Defender security engine may cause Windows machines to write files large enough to completely consume available disk ...