Microsoft is expanding its enterprise antivirus software to iOS and Android, the company announced this month. The move marks a bid to become the dominant cybersecurity provider for large companies.

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In the past couple of years, Microsoft has made some solid apps for iOS and Android. Now, the company is planning to bring its Defender antivirus solution for mobile platforms. These apps will be part ...

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Microsoft is renaming its Windows Defender antivirus software to Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), and bringing it to macOS for the first time. Although macOS uses techniques like ...

In context: Though Windows built-in security systems were once the subject of quite a bit of criticism, today's incarnation of Windows Defender is able to hold its own against other major antivirus ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Windows Defender (or Microsoft Security Essentials for those on earlier versions of the OS, in ...

The internet can be a bad place. I know for the most part you likely exist in a carefree state as you browse brownie recipes or discuss how to deal with 30-50 feral hogs, but if you make that one ...

In one of our recent articles we have explored the benefits of Light Virtualization (LV). This is a unique software technology that sandboxes whole disks/partitions, protecting their contents against ...

Many software programs are being offered these days that identify themselves as Malware removers and PC Optimizers and promise to effectively identify errors, clean up the disk and make the computer ...