Here I was playing some Far Cry 2 on my machine (so not exactly a resource hog these days), when suddenly the screen goes black, I can't Ctrl Alt Delete, or get the task manager or anything, and the ...

If you have seen the program “Antimalware Service Executable” in the Task Manager, don’t be worried. It’s not a third-party service or a virus mimicking an antivirus. It’s an official program from ...

Google Project Zero’s Tavis Ormandy found another remote code execution vulnerability in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine, the third since early May. Google Project Zero continues to scrape ...

Late last night Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band patch to fix a vulnerability in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (MsMpEng) that one of the researchers ...

Microsoft quietly patched a critical vulnerability found by Google’s Project Zero team in the Malware Protection Engine. Microsoft quietly patched a critical vulnerability Wednesday in its Malware ...

5-Year-Old Windows Defender Bug That Caused CPU Spikes on Firefox Finally Fixed The fix reduces CPU usage from Microsoft's MsMpEng.exe by as much as 75% while using the Firefox browser, according to a ...

In an emergency out-of-band update released late last night, Microsoft fixed a vulnerability in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine discovered by two Google security experts over the weekend, and ...

Why it matters: Microsoft has released a crucial bug-fixing update to its Windows Defender antimalware application. Its arrival means that some unlucky Firefox users should now get a much smoother and ...

It took over five years, but Microsoft has finally fixed a bug that caused Windows Defender to drain CPU resources when Mozilla’s Firefox browser is active. In 2018, Mozilla staff reported that ...