Microsoft's bootable security scanner has emerged from beta and deserves a permanent place in your Windows bag of tricks Microsoft’s rootkit-busting scanner, Windows Defender Offline, has emerged from ...

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 ...

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.

Nothing beats free antivirus protection on Windows, like Microsoft Defender, but some of that software might not be as strong as you think based on a new study from an anti-malware assessment company.

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 ...