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Windows 11 Starts Tricking Defender Into Deactivating Antivirus - but It's Actually Working

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Microsoft is asking users to ignore warnings that Defender Antivirus is deactivated that started appearing after installing the latest update. Although users of the Windows Insider program in the Release Preview ring encountered the issue back in June, Microsoft seems to have only now noticed it, writes Computer beeps. Image source: Towfiqu barbhuiya/unsplash.com This issue […] The post Windows 11 starts tricking Defender into deactivating antiv…
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Microsoft has listed in the Windows Health dashboard two new, officially confirmed or reported issues related to current Windows updates. Among them is also a Microsoft Defender bug. Tags: #Antivirus Solution # #Microsoft

If your PC is harassing you with alerts that your protection is disabled, breathe a big blow. Microsoft confirms that this is a simple persistent display bug. Your system remains perfectly secure in the background, and an official patch is already in preparation to silence these false alarms.

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Microsoft Defender is having another problem: it may frequently display notifications that the antivirus software is turned off.

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Microsoft has confirmed the bug that restores the default settings of the mouse pointer and the bug that shows a false notification for Defender. The post Windows 11: Microsoft confirms bugs with mouse and Defender appeared first on Punto Informico.

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Punto Informatico broke the news on Sunday, August 30, 2026.
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