How to Find and Remove Malware With Windows Defender Offline

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Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. This Is Your Brain on Silence Contrary to popular belief, peace and quiet is all about the noise in your head. [Nautilus] The Secrets of the Wood Wide Web Trees communicate in way we hadn't imagined. [The New Yorker] Are the Aliens Trying to Extinguish an Entire Star? It's surely too early to say what their motivations might be—or what they even look like and whether they think that humans are cool or lame—but a paper posted this week to the arXiv pre-print server makes it all too clear that aliens are attempting to destroy an entire star. [Motherboard] How to Add a Tab Leader to a Tab Stop in Microsoft Word A tab leader in Word produces a row of dots, dashes, or underscores between two sets of text, separated with the Tab key. They are useful for creating tabular lists without using tables, as shown in the above image. Read This Article → How to Turn Off Enhanced Notifications for Windows Defender With the Anniversary Update to Windows 10, Windows Defender now notifies you about a lot of actions that it used to keep in the background. If you want to return to the quieter days when it only alerted you about critical events, you can turn these enhanced notifications off. Read This Article → How to Reset an App’s Data on Windows 10 With Windows 10’s Anniversary Update, you can now reset an app’s data without actually uninstalling and reinstalling the app. This can fix problems when an app has gotten into a bad state, or just quickly restore an app to its default settings. Read This Article → How to Find and Remove Malware With Windows Defender Offline Microsoft has long offered a “Windows Defender Offline” tool you can use to perform malware scans from outside of Windows. With Windows 10’s Anniversary Update, this tool is included with Windows, and even easier to launch. Here’s how to use it, no matter which version of Windows you’re on. Read This Article → How to Change the Amazon Echo’s Alarm Sound Whenever you set a timer or an alarm on your Amazon Echo, it emits a default sound when your timer or alarm go off. It’s not an annoying sound at all, but if it’s not quite your cup of tea, here’s how to change it and pick a better sound that’s more geared toward your liking. Read This Article → How to Get Notifications for Any Facebook Post Without Commenting On It Have you ever noticed people writing “following” in the comments of a Facebook post? They do this so they can get notifications when the post updates, but there’s a much easier and more efficient way to do this–and it’s built right into Facebook. Read This Article → How to Open Tabs from Your Last Session Whenever You Start Your Browser Do you always have a lot of tabs open in your browser? If your browser has crashed on you, or if you just want to keep those tabs open next time you start your computer, don’t panic. There is a solution. Read This Article → How to Remove the Windows Defender Icon From Your Notification Area Windows 10 has always included the Windows Defender antivirus, but many Windows users didn’t notice it was even there. To make it more obvious, Windows 10’s Anniversary Update adds a Windows Defender icon to the notification area on your taskbar. Read This Article → How to Periodically Scan Your Computer With Windows Defender While Using Another Antivirus Windows 10 comes with Windows Defender, a built-in antivirus tool to help protect your PC from malware. With the Anniversary Update, Windows Defender can keep protecting your PC by providing a second layer of protection, even if you install another antivirus. Read This Article → How to Keep Your Windows PC and Apps Up to Date We know, updating your PC is a hassle–but it’s important. New security flaws are discovered on a regular basis, and most companies are pretty good about about issuing fixes for those flaws as they crop up. Plugging those holes, however, depends largely upon you making sure things are properly updated. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Security Now: Essentials for IT Defense (eBook Kit, a $50 Value) Kit includes "Securing the Virtual Environment" plus 3 other resources to help you understand the virtual environment and IT security. Click here to download