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Meet Windows Defender Security Center, your PC’s safety belt in the Creators Update

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MICROSOFT MADE SOME much needed changes to Windows Defender with the Creators Update (go.pcworld.com/cu). The built-in antivirus app is renamed the Windows Defender Security Center, and as that name suggests, it’s a more fleshed-out security suite.

It’s not that Windows Defender has any new features. What Microsoft has done for the most part is bring together a

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