We've all got that friend. It's the one that complained about their seven-year-old PC (that was low-end when they bought it) being too slow, and downloaded a free utility to fix the virus that they ...

Microsoft has announced that its antivirus and anti-malware software will start treating free application that try to scare you into upgrading to paid software as “unwanted software.” That means ...

Even the legitimate tools are sort stagnating because Microsoft keeps adding their ideas into Windows's scheduled tasks (for example, automatic defragmentation was not a thing until Windows 7/ A ...

Just to dive into the cCleaner debate. I find it useful, but only as something to run once every 3 months or so. It has never crashed any machine I own. It is a one stop shop to clean up dead files ...

Spam is unavoidable: It clutters your phone call history and chokes your email inbox. Like spam, scareware is another annoyance that seems to go hand-in-hand with internet access. It’s why you should ...

Microsoft is rolling out a new tool dubbed “scareware blocker,” which uses machine learning and computer vision to identify a very pervasive type of online scam. “Scareware” has blighted the web ...

Windows Defender, built into every Windows 10 PC, is considered the bare minimum for securing your PC from viruses and malware. (See where it ranked against the competition in our comprehensive ...

Microsoft is introducing a new scareware sensor for the Microsoft Edge web browser, which helps detect scam pages more quickly and ensures that Defender SmartScreen blocks them faster. In scareware ...