{"id":2005,"date":"2017-05-31T18:25:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T17:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2017-05-31T18:25:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T17:25:21","slug":"critical-vulnerability-in-the-windows-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/31\/critical-vulnerability-in-the-windows-defender\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Vulnerability in the Windows Defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Critical Vulnerability in the Windows Defender <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hints_Tips.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-462 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hints_Tips.png\" alt=\"Critical Vulnerability in the Windows Defender\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hints_Tips.png 200w, http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hints_Tips-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>A critical vulnerability in the Windows Defender\u2019s Malware Protection Engine has been discovered. It give would be hackers the ability to take over your computer undetected. This has already been addressed by Microsoft and they have issued a security update outside of the regular patch cycle.<\/p>\n<p>If you have updates turned on and you are connected to the internet your computer should install automatically, but you should check that that the Malware Protection Engine version in Windows Defender is at least 1.1.13804.0.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions or you have any tips of your own, Why not drop a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critical Vulnerability in the Windows Defender A critical vulnerability in the Windows Defender\u2019s Malware Protection Engine has been discovered. It give would be hackers the ability to take over your computer undetected. This has already been addressed by Microsoft and they have issued a security update outside of the regular patch cycle. If you have&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/31\/critical-vulnerability-in-the-windows-defender\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Critical Vulnerability in the Windows Defender<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,78,57,73,186],"tags":[99,110,305,309,107],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-hints-and-tips","category-internet","category-microsoft","category-windows-microsoft","tag-hints-tips","tag-hints-and-tips-2","tag-internet","tag-microsoft","tag-windows","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vennercorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}