What Is "Antimalware Service Executable" and Why Is It Running on My PC?

Did You Know? Earl Wild, an accomplished American pianist, can lay claim to two interesting technology-related piano milestones. In 1939, he became the first pianist to perform a recital on U.S. television and in 1997, he became the first pianist to stream a performance over the Internet. Geek Trivia The Largest Single Source Of Dust Pollution In The United States Is A? Missile Testing Site → Concrete Factory → Strip Mine → Dried Up Lake Bed → Advertisement Download Interview Intervention - Communication That Gets You Hired ($4 Value) Free For a Limited Time Want a guaranteed way to nail your next job interview? Check out this book by the award-winning author of The Hiring Prophecies: Psychology behind Recruiting Successful Employees. In his first book, Interview Intervention, Andrew LaCivita teaches his job interviewing methodology historically proven to increase your chance of getting hired by 560%.Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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How to Get the Most Out of Your Philips Hue Lights Four Tools That Automatically Download Stunning Wallpapers Every Day How to Create, Rearrange, Organize, and Remove Shortcuts on Your Synology NAS Desktop How to Enable Color Filters on Your iPhone or iPad for Easy-on-the-Eyes Reading How to Show Emergency Medical Information on Your iPhone The Most Useful Chat and Bot Commands In Discord How to Set Up Your Own Discord Chat Server Why You Shouldn’t Turn Off Virtual Memory on Your Mac How to Add Attachments in Gmail for Android How to Stop Twitter Highlights from Pestering You with Unrelated Notifications What Is Wake-on-LAN, and How Do I Enable It? [PRO] How to Turn on Line Numbers in vim Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Bluetool Bluetool is a slang term for an individual who wears a Bluetooth wireless earpiece everywhere they go. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. How Netflix DDoS'd Itself To Help Protect the Entire Internet Netflix security specialists found a novel new attach vector, and now they're showing everyone how to avoid it [Wired] 'Rust' could be the real Alzheimer's trigger The rusting you see on iron metal is the same rusting reaction that occurs in the brain. [Futurity] A Cruise Ship LAN Party Forgot One Thing: The Cruise Ship A floating esports tournament (and casino!) proves to be an infinite regress of bad ideas. [Waypoint] A 'potentially deadly' mushroom-identifying app highlights the dangers of bad AI The app's creator says it's just a guide, but experts aren't happy [The Verge] How to Force YouTube Videos to Open In The YouTube Gaming Interface Have you seen the dark, chat-focused user interface for YouTube Gaming? Google’s answer to game streaming site Twitch has some interesting features all its own, and it’s a pretty slick-looking to boot. But the distinction between regular YouTube and YouTube Gaming is… well, less than distinct. Read This Article → How to Use “Adapt Sound” on the Galaxy S7 and S8 for Better Sound Quality Samsung’s build of Android Nougat has an incredible new feature that allows users to completely customize their listening experience based completely off their ears. It’s called Adapt Sound, and if you’re not using it, you’re missing out. Here’s everything you need to know. Read This Article → How to Hide a Facebook Post (Without Deleting It) Facebook has a lot of uses. For some, it's just a social network, but for others, it's a piece of professional branding. If you're in the latter category, it helps to keep your Timeline tidy and free of irrelevant information. Read This Article → What Is “Antimalware Service Executable” and Why Is It Running on My PC? Windows 10 includes Windows Defender, Microsoft’s built-in antivirus. The “Antimalware Service Executable” process is Windows Defender’s background process. This program is also known as MsMpEng.exe, and is part of the Windows operating system. Read This Article → How to Get the Most Out of Your Philips Hue Lights Philips Hue is one of the most popular smart lighting brands on the market, and for good reason. However, even if you have your house decked out with Hue bulbs, you may not be using them to their fullest potential. Here are some cool things you can do with your Hue lights in order to get the most out of them. Read This Article → Four Tools That Automatically Download Stunning Wallpapers Every Day The Internet can be a horrible place, but there’s a lot of beauty out there. Beautiful paintings and photos can remind you of that, and the right program can deliver them to you automatically. Read This Article → How to Create, Rearrange, Organize, and Remove Shortcuts on Your Synology NAS Desktop If you find yourself routinely using the same tools and applications on your Synology NAS, it makes sense to arrange the layout of your virtual workspace to save yourself a bunch of unnecessary trips into the menu system. Read This Article → How to Enable Color Filters on Your iPhone or iPad for Easy-on-the-Eyes Reading On an iPhone or iPad, you can use the “Display Accommodations” accessibility feature to invert the colors on your screen, reduce the brightness of white and bright colors on your screen, and enable color filters designed to aid people with color blindness. Read This Article → How to Show Emergency Medical Information on Your iPhone There’s a good chance you’ll have your phone with you in a medical emergency. That’s why Apple allows you to set a Medical ID that shows your medical conditions, drug allergies, emergency contacts, and organ donor status that anyone can see without unlocking your phone. Read This Article → The Most Useful Chat and Bot Commands In Discord Like the IRC chat of old, Discord comes with a set of slash commands that you can use to express yourself or do useful things like search for GIFs or read text aloud. Better yet, you can add bots to your Discord server to get even more functionality out of your server. Here are the most useful chat commands and bots for Discord. Read This Article → How to Set Up Your Own Discord Chat Server Discord is an excellent, free chat application that was built for gamers, but is useful for anyone. It comes with Slack-style text chat, group voice chat channels, and plenty of tools to manage your users. It’s a great tool for getting a community together or talking with friends while you play games. Here’s how to set up your own server. Read This Article → Why You Shouldn’t Turn Off Virtual Memory on Your Mac Your Mac comes with a set amount of physical memory applications can use. Your running programs, open files, and other data your Mac is actively working with are stored in this physical memory. But that’s a simplification—applications can also use “virtual memory”, which your Mac can compress and temporarily store on disk. Read This Article → How to Add Attachments in Gmail for Android If you don’t use email as part of your day to day life, it can easily be one of those things that seems more complicated than it is. But there’s no need to break out the computer if you simply need to email something—a picture, document, something—because you can easily do it directly from your phone. Read This Article → How to Stop Twitter Highlights from Pestering You with Unrelated Notifications Social networks are always trying to get you to "engage" more with their service and recently, Twitter has introduced a new trick: Highlights notifications. Read This Article → What Is Wake-on-LAN, and How Do I Enable It? Technology often yields ridiculous conveniences, like being able to turn on your computer from miles away without pushing the power button. Wake-on-LAN has been around for a while, so let's see how it works and how we can enable it. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Interview Intervention - Communication That Gets You Hired ($4 Value) Free For a Limited Time Want a guaranteed way to nail your next job interview? Check out this book by the award-winning author of The Hiring Prophecies: Psychology behind Recruiting Successful Employees. In his first book, Interview Intervention, Andrew LaCivita teaches his job interviewing methodology historically proven to increase your chance of getting hired by 560%.Click here to download