Critical Vulnerability in the Windows Defender

Critical Vulnerability in the Windows Defender Critical Vulnerability in the Windows Defender

A critical vulnerability in the Windows Defender’s Malware Protection Engine has been discovered. It give would be hackers the ability to take over your computer undetected. This has already been addressed by Microsoft and they have issued a security update outside of the regular patch cycle.

If you have updates turned on and you are connected to the internet your computer should install automatically, but you should check that that the Malware Protection Engine version in Windows Defender is at least 1.1.13804.0.

 

 

 

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