Tucked inside Windows is a handy malware-removal tool that keeps working in the background and proves surprisingly useful ...

Microsoft offers a number of free anti-malware tools. Windows 10 and 8.1 users have Windows Defender. Windows 7 users can chose between the full-featured Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) or the ...

Q: I use both the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool and Microsoft Windows Defender. What's the difference between them? Are they both necessary? A: The Malicious Software Removal Tool is a ...

Note: This mystery has been solved. See the July 15th update at the bottom. July 9th was patch Tuesday and I dutifully ran Windows Update on a few PCs. I thought perhaps that the Windows Malicious ...

Malicious Software Removal Tool (MRT.exe) from Microsoft comes built-in with Windows operating system. This is a free tool that doesn’t give real-time protection but automatically scans for and ...

The world is not a safe place, neither for humans nor for your Windows machine. Malware attacks are always a threat to the security of your computer and your personal data. Although Windows 11 has ...

I’m smart enough to engineer a trip to Honolulu a couple of times a year — but somehow, with only a couple of weeks to go till I get to paradise, I wind up in Chelmsford, Mass., where the temperature ...