If you’re comfortable with all this — and in our experience, Edge is lighter and faster than Chrome — then Microsoft Defender Antivirus and the related protections built into Windows 10 and 11 should absolutely be good enough to protect you from malware infection, and...

1. Select Start > Settings > Update & Security > Windows Security and then Virus & threat protection > Manage settings. (In previous versions of Windows 10, select Virus & threat protection > Virus & threat protection settings.) Switch the Real-time protection setting to On/Off...

Turn on real-time and cloud-delivered protection Select the Start menu. In the search bar, type Windows Security. … Select Virus & threat protection. Under Virus & threat protection settings, select Manage settings. Flip each switch under Real-time protection and Cloud-delivered protection to turn them on....

Replies (64)  Press Windows + X, Click on control panel. On right top corner click on View and then choose large items. Now from the list click on Windows Defender and try to enable it. Press Windows + R, to open run prompt. Type...