Microsoft Defender (previously Windows Defender) has been a part of the Windows operating system since the early 2000s, with Microsoft improving and iterating on it up to the present — and presumably ...

Before you proceed, you should know one thing. If you have a 3rd-party security software, these suggestions may help. But if Windows Defender is the only security software installed on your computer, ...

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