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How to manually update Microsoft Defender

February 2, 2022 admin IDG Insider, microsoft, Security, small and medium business, windows, Windows 10, windows 11

Credit to Author: Ed Tittel| Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 03:00:00 -0800

Microsoft Defender is the built-in anti-malware package that’s included with modern Windows operating systems. It’s alternatively known as Windows Security (it shows up under Settings as Windows Security) or Windows Defender (sometimes with Antivirus at the end of the name, as in this Microsoft Docs page). But whatever you want to call it, for many Windows users, this tool is the go-to default for handling security on their PCs.

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QuickHeal Security

Quick Heal Supports Windows 10 November 2021 Update (version 21H2)

February 2, 2022 admin #21h2, #win10, Antivirus, cybersecurity, microsoft, update, windows, Windows update, windows10

Credit to Author: Quickheal| Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:15:05 +0000

Microsoft has recently developed a new update for Windows 10 PCs, called Windows 10 November 2021 update, version…

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Stay Alert – Malware Authors Deploy ELF as Windows Loaders to Exploit WSL feature

February 2, 2022 admin cybersecurity, ELF, linux, malware, microsoft, python, Uncategorized, windows, windows10, wsl

Credit to Author: Rutuja Mane| Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2021 11:01:48 +0000

What is WSL? The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a resource inside the Windows operating system that…

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Update – Quick Heal products are compatible with Windows 11

February 2, 2022 admin #windows11, cybersecurity, microsoft, update, windows, Windows update

Credit to Author: Quickheal| Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:47:18 +0000

Microsoft has released an all-new Windows 11 Operating System (OS). This article highlights the new features in Windows…

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Kaspersky Security

7 steps to minimize game lags in Windows 10

March 18, 2020 admin Antivirus, gamers, games, Gaming, gaming mode, Kaspersky Internet Security, performance, Tips, windows

Credit to Author: Serge Malenkovich| Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 09:08:40 +0000

These seven tips will help you get maximum gaming performance from your PC while retaining a high level of protection.

Security Sophos

Patch now! Microsoft releases fixes for the serious SMB bug CVE-2020-0796

March 17, 2020 admin 2020-03, cve-2020-0796, exploit, Patch Tuesday, SMB, smbv3, SophosLabs Uncut, Updates, windows

Credit to Author: alexandrebecholey| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:34:59 +0000

Microsoft issues its latest set of cumulative updates for Windows and other Microsoft products this week, but the March, 2020 Patch Tuesday is notable not only because of the sheer volume of fixes, but because it will prevent one very serious bug in its Server Message Block (SMB) technology (download the patch right now) that […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/d5Hn2Ie7ee4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

ComputerWorld Independent

Take your time, get it right for March Patch Tuesday

March 17, 2020 admin Microsoft Office, PCs, Security, windows

Credit to Author: Greg Lambert| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:41:00 -0700

This is a big update to the Windows platform for the Microsoft March Patch Tuesday release cycle. Consisting of 115 patches, mostly to the Windows desktop, with almost all of the critical issues relating to browser-based scripting engine memory issues, this will be a difficult set of updates to release and manage.

The testing profile for the Windows desktop platform is very large, with a lower than usual exploitability/risk rating. For this month, we do not have any reports of publicly exploited or disclosed vulnerabilities (zero-days), so my recommendation is to take your time, test the changes to each platform, create a staged rollout plan and wait for future (potentially) imminent changes from Microsoft.

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Come on, Microsoft! Is it really that hard to update Windows 10 right?

March 17, 2020 admin microsoft, Security, windows

Credit to Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols| Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 07:47:00 -0700

Yesterday, on Patch Tuesday, as I was finishing up the column that follows lamenting the sorry state of Windows 10 patches and providing copious examples of things gone very wrong, a big, fat example landed in my lap (but happily not in my laptop). Word emerged that Microsoft had accidentally leaked news about a new Server Message Block (SMB) bug with a maximum severity rating, a.k.a. SMBGhost. The leak also said that this bug wasn’t patched in that day’s releases.

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