As internet threats have evolved, Windows has consistently provided tools to help users stay safe online. One of the earliest ...

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

Microsoft rolled out Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 10 and Windows 11 yesterday. For the former, the release primarily contains security patches, but for the latter, there are several other fixes ...

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The firewall is one of the most important security features in a computer environment. In the classic sense, a firewall is set up on an appliance, such as a computer that fulfills just a single, ...

Windows 11 will no longer add SMB1 Windows Defender Firewall rules when creating new SMB shares starting with today's Canary Channel Insider Preview Build 25992 build. Before this change and since ...

Historically, Windows has had a bad reputation for security, and there are far more malware strains that target Windows than any other operating system out there — largely due to the scale of PCs that ...