PCWorld highlights Winhance, a free open-source tool that simplifies removing Windows 11 bloatware, ads, and unwanted pre-installed applications through an easy-to-use interface.

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown files.

This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

If you want to de-enshittify Windows 11 but find starting over from scratch to be daunting, then this is for you.

Firewall penetration testing examines the firewall as a security control and identifies the weaknesses that allow unwanted traffic to reach internal systems.  It helps to make the network secure by ...

Windows 11 hides a maze of settings behind the modern Settings app and the older Control Panel, which can turn simple tweaks into a scavenger hunt. Power users have quietly relied on a shortcut that ...

A fake CAPTCHA scam is tricking Windows users into running PowerShell commands that install StealC malware and steal passwords, crypto wallets, and more.

Threat actors are now abusing DNS queries as part of ClickFix social engineering attacks to deliver malware, making this the first known use of DNS as a channel in these campaigns.

ClickFix campaigns have adapted to the latest defenses with a new technique to trick users into infecting their own machines with malware.

Users could be tricked into running arbitrary code, but the issue was patched last week.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell lavished money on the Interlochen Center for the Arts to gain access, documents show — ...