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 Windows program ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...