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Microsoft Defender for Individuals was released to the general public in June 2022 for Windows 10, Windows 11, Mac OS, Android, and iOS devices. [ 68 ] [ 69 ] On Windows it works alongside Microsoft's first and third-party antivirus solutions, such as Microsoft Defender Antivirus.
SmartScreen (officially called Windows SmartScreen, Windows Defender SmartScreen and SmartScreen Filter in different places) is a cloud-based anti-phishing and anti-malware component included in several Microsoft products: All versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system since Windows 8; Web browsers Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge
ChromeOS, sometimes styled as chromeOS and formerly styled as Chrome OS, is a Linux distribution developed and designed by Google. [8] It is derived from the open-source ChromiumOS operating system and uses the Google Chrome web browser as its principal user interface.
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Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE) – a public-domain interface to raster-image scanner-hardware; Installable File System (IFS) – a filesystem API for IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Windows NT; Open Data-Link Interface (ODI) – network card API similar to NDIS; Uniform Driver Interface (UDI) – a cross-platform driver interface project
In Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 10, System File Checker is integrated with Windows Resource Protection (WRP), which protects registry keys and folders as well as critical system files. Under Windows Vista, sfc.exe can be used to check specific folder paths, including the Windows folder and the boot folder.
Windows Defender is enabled by default in Windows Vista and higher, even when anti-virus software has been installed. In fact, some don't need to run permanently in the background, but must be run by the user to scan the hard drive(s) and removable media for malware occasionally as part of the regular Windows maintenance routine.
On May 2, 2017, Microsoft unveiled Windows 10 S (referred to in leaks as Windows 10 Cloud), a feature-limited edition of Windows 10 which was designed primarily for devices in the education market (competing, in particular, with ChromeOS netbooks), such as the Surface Laptop that Microsoft also unveiled at this time. The OS restricts software ...