Microsoft Defender is causing slow VLC startups. Here’s the fix

For some time now, there have been complaints across various online forums about how the popular VLC Media Player takes several seconds (sometimes half a minute!) to start up. The problem occurs ...
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Windows 11 is telling users their antivirus is off — it's a bug

Recently, a handful of Windows 11 users have reported on Microsoft forums that they are repeatedly getting warnings that their PC’s security is off. It appears that a Windows 11 antivirus bug falsely ...
techtarget

Defender PowerShell Hash Mismatches Fix Coming

A blog for IT professionals who work with Windows on large networks. Last month, I wrote a blog post here about co-called “corrupt file” messages originating in SFC /scannow. On Friday, August 16, ...
BleepingComputer

Microsoft fixes known issue causing Windows Defender crashes

Microsoft has resolved a bug that caused Windows Defender to crash after a recent security update, resulting in 0xc0000005 access violation errors on some affected systems. Microsoft Defender is a ...
Cybernews

Vengeful researcher bypasses Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday fix with new Windows zero-day

The anonymous researcher released a new proof-of-concept exploit called ShieldCrash, claiming it bypasses Microsoft's patch for the ShieldBreak Defender vulnerability – the latest in a string of ...
Ars Technica

Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk

A patch Microsoft released on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Defender security engine may cause Windows machines to write files large enough to completely consume available disk ...