In July, we kicked off a blog series focused on " Microsoft's Free Security Tools ." The series highlights free security tools that Microsoft provides to help make IT professionals' and developers' lives easier. A good tool can save a lot of work and time for those people responsible for developing and...

This article in our series focused on Microsoft’s free security tools is on a tool called Windows Defender Offline . Windows Defender Offline is a standalone software application that is designed to help detect malicious and other potentially unwanted software, including rootkits that try to install...