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Microsoft just rolled out the Windows 11 Patch Tuesday update for April 2023. The update includes several security fixes and a short list of changes.

The best free PC antivirus software combines usability, modern protective technologies, and a reasonable price tag. Here are my top picks for PC antivirus software offerings in 2023.

Defender and Firefox were not best friends, but a major bug affecting their interaction (wasting CPU cycles) has now been fixed.

A performance-sapping conflict between Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Defender was first discussed on Bugzilla half a decade ago. However, Firefox users can…

Microsoft has released the Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 22H2 (KB5025239) and 21H2 (KB5025224). You can grab the updates automatically through Windows Update or download offline executables.

Microsoft and Mozilla have managed to fix a five year old bug in Windows Defender which was causing relatively high CPU usage on Firefox compared to other browsers like Chrome and Edge.

For more than five years, the troublesome security protection provided by Microsoft Defender was negatively affecting Firefox users during their web browsing sessions. The Antimalware Service Executable...

Microsoft has finally fixed a major bug in Microsoft Defender — after a whopping five years — that led to CPU spikes when using Firefox.

You open up Task Manager only to find countless instances of rundll32.exe running all at once. But what is rundll32.exe? What does it do, and how do you determine what any given instance of it is actually doing on your PC? Here’s everything you need to know.

Due to the demands of the modern workforce, there has been an exponential shift in the use of native cloud email protection capabilities, like Microsoft 365, in the last 12 months.