Is turning off Windows Security a bad idea in 2026? A PC expert's bottom line

Toggle the Real-time protection switch off. You may receive a User Account Control (UAC) prompt asking if you want to allow the change to occur. Select Yes. When you're ready to turn system protection ...

Watch out for this fake Windows BSOD - it's actually malware

The Windows Blue Screen (or Black Screen) of Death is typically a sign that some unrecoverable error or conflict has occurred. Now, cybercriminals are using the dreaded BSOD as a way to trick people ...
IEEE

Anomaly Detection in Windows Event Logs for Ransomware Identification

Ransomware remains one of the most disruptive and damaging categories of cyber threats. Such malware encrypts user data and demands payment for decryption keys, while in some cases threatening to leak ...
MUO on MSN

I didn’t know Windows kept a reliability score for my PC

The simplest way is to use Windows search. Open the Start menu, type reliability, and click the View reliability history option. Windows will open the Reliability Monitor, and after a second or two, ...
How-To Geek on MSN

This is the most useful Windows troubleshooting tool you keep overlooking

Troubleshooting a Windows PC can oftentimes be quite a bore—and depending on your specific issue, it can either be pretty ...
GitHub

Create Policy From Event Logs

This page in AppControl Manager allows you to create Application Control policies directly from local event logs or EVTX files. It focuses on processing Code Integrity and AppLocker event logs to help ...
GitHub

The Alloy agent writes multiple events into same Windows Event Log entry

When the Alloy Agent reports its own events to the Windows Event Log, a couple of issues is raised: Multiple Alloy log lines are written into same event The individual log level is thereby not ...