Defender installed automatically after Windows update

Will you quickly see a brand new utility after updating your Home windows PC? Then do not be alarmed: Microsoft will begin charging Home windows Defender on PCs operating Home windows 10 and 11 on the finish of this month.

Home windows customers will quickly see a brand new app on the desktop. From the top of February, the brand new utility ‘Home windows Defender’ will routinely be loaded on the system.

Right this moment your Home windows PC is protected by Home windows Safety. Normally that works very properly, however you solely get a view of 1 machine. The Defender app solves that drawback: the applying offers you an summary of what’s going on with all of your gadgets at a look. You will discover the app immediately within the Microsoft Retailer and set up it in your PC. Nonetheless, Microsoft desires extra customers for the anti-virus utility and can bundle it along with your subsequent Workplace replace. Are you putting in a brand new PC? Then the software program will likely be put in instantly.

To make use of the applying, log in along with your Microsoft 365 account. In case you are logged in on completely different gadgets with the identical account, you will note all of them in Defender.

Defender isn’t a virus

That new app that may quickly seem on the desktop is subsequently not a virus, however an anti-virus program. Apparently, Defender can be accessible as an app within the Google Play Retailer. By way of that app you cannot solely keep watch over the standing of your Home windows PCs, however you can too carry out scans in your Android cell phone.

Do not wish to be shocked by the brand new app or do you like to put in it at your individual tempo? Then you’ll be able to already go to the Microsoft Retailer to obtain and set up the applying. That is additionally potential and not using a Microsoft 365 subscription, though some features will then not be accessible.