WINDOWS DEFENDER, the embedded Microsoft anti-malware software in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, is to add scareware utilities to its list of targets from March.
We’ve all been there – warnings of out of date drivers, thousands of registry errors, and usually with a message claiming “we’ll fix 30 for free, then you pay”. Most of it is utter twaddle and won’t affect your computing experience at all. In fact, in a lot of cases, they do more harm than good.
