Ask anyone around whether their PC would do great with third-party antivirus software, and you'll most likely get a yes. That's not because their PC lacks a default cybersecurity service. Instead, ...

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 ...

Software in a form that can be run in the computer. Executable code generally refers to machine language, which is the set of native instructions the computer carries out in hardware. Executable files ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

If you have seen the program “Antimalware Service Executable” in the Task Manager, don’t be worried. It’s not a third-party service or a virus mimicking an antivirus. It’s an official program from ...