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 ...

5-Year-Old Windows Defender Bug That Caused CPU Spikes on Firefox Finally Fixed The fix reduces CPU usage from Microsoft's MsMpEng.exe by as much as 75% while using the Firefox browser, according to a ...

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 ...