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While Windows Defender is generally great, from time to time it flags legit files or websites as malware or virus. In the latest such case, it thinks you made your own virus by writing this line.
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Following our report of Microsoft Edge failing to load websites properly, the company swiftly took down the update that was causing it. And now, a new update is out which fixes the problem.
Microsoft Defender, among several other popular AV products, can hog your system under certain situations, though they, including Defender, do a good job as a malware hunter, most of the time.
Microsoft 365 Defender goofed up again as system admins found it is flagging legit URLs as malicious links. The company acknowledged the issue and has stated that it is looking into a fix.
Microsoft has officially validated the workaround for the mayhem caused by Defender yesterday. The company has published a fix but has confirmed it can't restore the deleted shortcuts for you.
After very poor showings in terms of system performance impact in AV-TEST's and AV-Comparatives' reports, Microsoft Defender does really well in the latter's malware protection ranking.
Sordum announces that it is killing off its Defender Control updates. The app enabled users to disable Microsoft Defender but recently there have been a lot of complains about certain issues.
AV-Comparatives has released its latest September 2022 antivirus assessment, which shows that Microsoft Defender has once again done poorly in false positive detection despite improving overall.
AV-Comparatives has released its latest July-August 2022 anti-virus program assessment report which shows Microsoft Defender has been worse off this time compared to the previous tests.
The ESET mobile antivirus has been detecting the Spotify app as a Trojan Dropper. However, the security firm has confirmed that it is only a false positive alert, assuring that an update will fix it.
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Windows 11 has several new security-related features. One of these features called Smart App Control that intelligently blocks suspicious apps and files blocked one of Microsoft's own files.
Microsoft's Defender for Endpoint security solution had yet another false positive incident today as it appears to have wrongly flagged recent Google Chrome updates as "suspicious".
SmartScreen on Defender is apparently causing delayed playback issues in videos on the latest Beta Channel build 22581 for Windows 11 Insiders. For now, there is a simple workaround for the bug.
Microsoft has published a guidance for security admins about reporting of potential false positives. This follows a recent incident when the firm's Office updates were flagged as malware by Defender.
Microsoft's Defender for Endpoint security solution was detecting the company's own Office process as malware. The firm has since confirmed that this was a false positive with nothing to worry about.
CCleaner, a popular Windows PC cleanup tool, has made its way to the Microsoft Store. The Redmond company and CCleaner have had a past filled with some animosity which makes this pretty interesting.
Free and light benchmarking utility UserBenchmark is flagged by close to two dozen anti-virus programs as malware, according to VirusTotal. Windows Security, too, flags it as a "Severe" trojan.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is falsely flagging the latest Chrome update released yesterday as a Funvalget backdoor. Some reports suggest that an updated definition has fixed the false positive.
Microsoft has outlined some techniques that software vendors need to follow in order to avoid false positives being caught by Windows Defender. Techniques include respecting the customer's choice.
