Learn how to open and configure Windows Defender settings in Windows 11 to protect your PC from viruses and online threats.

I was recently talking to someone I know about using Windows Defender to scan their system, and they decided to use the "offline scan" option (the one that reboots and does a scan before loading ...

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My dell laptop which I believe is compromised, I have done a lot of full scans and it found over 10,000+ of threats last week. Thing is I then did a few other full scans and it didn't find anything.

Microsoft has released a confusing selection of security programs over the years. Deborah Armstrong asked me to make sense of them. [Email your tech questions to [email protected] or post them on the ...