Microsoft pushed emergency patches this week for two zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows Defender, the antivirus software ...

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Microsoft has confirmed an emergency security update as CISA warns that two new Defender zero-days are being exploited by ...

Microsoft is testing a new Defender for Endpoint capability that will automatically isolate compromised endpoints to thwart ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft started rolling out security patches for two Defender vulnerabilities that have been exploited in ...

Microsoft patched two actively exploited Defender zero-days affecting Windows systems and security components.

Microsoft pushed out-of-band patches on May 21, 2026, for two actively exploited Windows Defender zero-days — one that lets a ...

Windows Defender supports Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003. Microsoft's Windows Defender product manager Mike Chan says the anti-spyware utility, which was originally acquired when ...

Microsoft is ending Windows 10 support for most users on October 14, 2025 and the company has been urging users to upgrade to Windows 11. But in what seems to be a tacit acknowledgment that a lot of ...

Microsoft published a new Defender update when it released its October 2024 Patch Tuesday (it did not release any in November.) This update package is necessary as a Windows installation image may ...

Microsoft Defender (previously Windows Defender) has been a part of the Windows operating system since the early 2000s, with Microsoft improving and iterating on it up to the present — and presumably ...

Microsoft has attempted to provide PCs with antivirus software for ages, all the way back to Microsoft Anti-Virus for MS-DOS in 1993. Its Windows incarnation started life as Microsoft AntiSpyware in ...