Here I was playing some Far Cry 2 on my machine (so not exactly a resource hog these days), when suddenly the screen goes black, I can't Ctrl Alt Delete, or get the task manager or anything, and the ...

If you have seen the program “Antimalware Service Executable” in the Task Manager, don’t be worried. It’s not a third-party service or a virus mimicking an antivirus. It’s an official program from ...

I just noticed on my mom's computer that some "MsMpEng.exe" process (labeled "Antimalware Service Executable" and located under "C Program Files\Microsoft Security Client\") is consuming 100% of CPU.

It took over five years, but Microsoft has finally fixed a bug that caused Windows Defender to drain CPU resources when Mozilla’s Firefox browser is active. In 2018, Mozilla staff reported that ...

On Friday, Microsoft rolled out an out-of-band security update that patched a major security flaw in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (MsMpEng), a core security service part of the Microsoft ...

Microsoft quietly patched a critical vulnerability found by Google’s Project Zero team in the Malware Protection Engine. Microsoft quietly patched a critical vulnerability Wednesday in its Malware ...

When using Windows Performance Recorder (WPR), which checks system and application behavior and resource usage, if the CPU usage rate of 'MsMpEng.exe', which is the Microsoft Defender execution ...

In an emergency out-of-band update released late last night, Microsoft fixed a vulnerability in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine discovered by two Google security experts over the weekend, and ...