You may not be receiving top-tier protection offline from Microsoft Defender, according to new data. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Users of the BitDefender anti-virus software started flooding the company’s support forums Saturday, apparently after a faulty anti-virus update caused 64-bit Windows machines to stop working. The ...

A number of BitDefender users, whose 64-bit Windows systems stopped working or were unable to be rebooted after security program updates, vented their frustration by flooding the antivirus vendor's ...

Microsoft’s free built-in security software for Windows PCs, Defender Antivirus, provides excellent anti-malware protection for Windows PCs. However, it lacks some extras found in third-party products ...

A faulty update is being blamed for incapacitating an untold number of Microsoft Windows systems running anti-virus software from BitDefender. BitDefender says the problem occurred Saturday morning ...

Why it matters: A lot of people opt for Microsoft Defender as their default antivirus software, given that it comes as part of the Windows OS. But according to a new assessment of several different ...