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Microsoft fixes bug behind ‘Defender Antivirus is turned off’ alerts
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18 Sept
Microsoft fixes bug behind ‘Defender Antivirus is turned off’ alerts
REPORT · WHAT · BleepingComputer
Other feeds and industry voices
31 Aug
Microsoft asks users to ignore 'Antivirus is turned off' errors
Microsoft asked customers this week to ignore incorrect alerts that Defender Antivirus has been turned off after installing the latest Defender updates. [...]
REPORT · WHEN · BleepingComputerOPEN STORY
19 Aug
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. [...]
REPORT · WHAT · BleepingComputerOPEN STORY
1 May
Microsoft fixes Remote Desktop warnings displaying incorrectly
Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing newly introduced Windows security warnings to display incorrectly when opening Remote Desktop (.rdp) files. [...]
REPORT · WHEN · BleepingComputerOPEN STORY
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