Critical Windows Security update is out - get it NOW

[al**bear]

Microsoft's own antivirus software made Windows 7, 8.1, RT and 10 computers, as well as Windows Server 2016 more vulnerable.

Microsoft has just released an out-of-band security update to patch the crazy bad bug discovered by a pair of Google Project Zero researchers over the weekend.

The Hacker News website

[cee-dee]

Thing is, if you have an anti-virus program on your machine it will have switched Windows Defender off and you can't switch it on until you've removed your AV program completely and sometimes "completely" is very difficult unless your AV program has its own removal tool.