The Antimalware Service Executable is a process you might see pop-up in Task Manager’s task list now and again, beavering away at … something. While it’s not always obvious what it’s up to, and the ...

There are two common factors that can cause Antimalware Service Executable to take up too much CPU resources, from its real time feature and Full scan feature. Real time protection Feature is ...

The Antimalware Service Executable is a program that runs in the background on your Windows 10/11 PC to protect the computer from viruses and other threats. Sometimes it starts to consume too much ...

MsMpEng is the part of MSE that performs scanning (both for real-time scanning and on-demand/scheduled scanning). Is there a virus scan in progress (open MSE from its tray icon to check)? Click to ...

When using Windows Performance Recorder (WPR), which checks system and application behavior and resource usage, if the CPU usage rate of 'MsMpEng.exe', which is the Microsoft Defender execution ...

Whenever a Windows system slows down, the first approach should be to check the status of resource usage in the Task Manager. Usually, it shoots up to even 100%, thus causing the system to hang or ...

*The following table contains possible examples of `MsMpEng.exe` being misused. While `MsMpEng.exe` is **not** inherently malicious, its legitimate functionality can ...

Why it matters: Microsoft has released a crucial bug-fixing update to its Windows Defender antimalware application. Its arrival means that some unlucky Firefox users should now get a much smoother and ...