How Windows Defender's New Exploit Protection Works (and How to Configure It)

Did You Know? The scientific name for the common red fox (the largest and most widespread of the true fox species) is “Vulpes vulpes” which, translated directly from Latin becomes “Fox Fox”, hinting at the particular prominence of the red fox. Geek Trivia During World War II, Which Of The Following Items Was Heavily Censored? Sports Scores → Postal Delivery Routes → Farmers Almanacs → Weather Reports → Advertisement Find and Delete Duplicate Files the Easy Way If you want to find and clean up files the easy way, there's no better tool for the job than Duplicate Cleaner Pro 4. It's easy to use and chock full of features. Download a free trial and see for yourself whether you like it. Download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Spot Fake Stock Photos (and Attribute the Right Person) How to Make Banner Notifications Stick on Your iPhone’s Screen (Instead of Disappearing) How Windows Defender’s New Exploit Protection Works (and How to Configure It) How to Fix a Sticky or Stuck Crown on the Apple Watch How to Access Your Router If You Forget the Password What Can You Do With Samsung’s Bixby? How to Use a Limited Color Palette for Better Photos What’s New in Ubuntu 17.10 “Artful Aardvark”, Available Now [Review Geek] Smart Watches for Children Are Dangerous Garbage [Review Geek] Six Month Review: The Nintendo Switch Delivered On Its Lofty Promises [Review Geek] The Best Earplugs for Every Situation (Airplanes and Screaming Babies Included) [Review Geek] The Garmin Speak Puts Alexa In Your Car (No New Car Purchase Required) [Review Geek] Aire Is the Dystopian Domestic Security Drone Of Your Dreams Geek Comic Today's Tech Term NIPS NIPS (short for Network-Based Intrusion Prevention System) is an IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) designed to monitor a network for malicious activity or suspicious traffic, protect it from threats (denial of service attacks and unauthorized usage, for example), and protect its confidentiality, integrity, and availability. 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. Equifax Deserves the Corporate Death Penalty Protecting personal information was basically their entire job, and they failed. [Wired] Mobile screen time among US kids is almost 10 times higher than it was in 2011 Play with your phone, grown ups are talking right now. [ Quartz] The latest AI can work things out without being taught Why AlphaGo, the AI that wins at Go, is even crazier than you think. [The Economist] How to Spot Fake Stock Photos (and Attribute the Right Person) Spammers and other unscrupulous advertisers are always looking for new ways to get you click on their pages. One of the latest tactics is to steal popular and useful stock images—like the kind you sometimes see in news articles—and re-upload them elsewhere. Read This Article → How to Make Banner Notifications Stick on Your iPhone’s Screen (Instead of Disappearing) Almost all iOS apps show a temporary banner when you receive a notification. It appears at the top of the screen, and then after a few seconds disappears—although you can still see it in the Notification Center. Read This Article → How Windows Defender’s New Exploit Protection Works (and How to Configure It) Microsoft’s Fall Creators Update finally adds integrated exploit protection to Windows. You previously had to seek this out in the form of Microsoft’s EMET tool. It’s now part of Windows Defender and is activated by default. Read This Article → How to Fix a Sticky or Stuck Crown on the Apple Watch The Apple Watch doesn’t have many mechanical issues, since it has very few moving parts to begin with. However, the digital crown is one part in particular that can get stuck or feel sticky, making it difficult to spin. Here’s how to fix that. Read This Article → How to Access Your Router If You Forget the Password If you've forgotten your router's password, acquired a used router, or are just helping out a friend with their setup, you can reset the router’s password to its factory default. Read This Article → What Can You Do With Samsung’s Bixby? It seems like every technology company under the sun is working on a voice-controlled assistant to go up against the likes of Google’s Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa, and Apple’s Siri. Samsung’s branded version gets a boost from the company’s massive smartphone market share and a somewhat less-than-graceful inclusion of an extra hardware button on its latest models. But what all can Bixby do, and how is it different from its erstwhile competitors? Read This Article → How to Use a Limited Color Palette for Better Photos Color is one of the most important aspects of photography. It can make or break your images. It’s great when nature gives you great color to work with, but you also need to deliberately manipulate colors in your photos, both while you're shooting and in post-processing. Read This Article → What’s New in Ubuntu 17.10 “Artful Aardvark”, Available Now After quite a few unexciting releases, Ubuntu 17.10 “Artful Aardvark” is full of huge changes. Ubuntu Phone is dead, and so is Ubuntu’s dream of a converged desktop. Ubuntu’s developers are no longer working on Unity 8, and Ubuntu 17.10 ditches the old Unity 7 desktop for GNOME Shell. Read This Article → Advertisement Find and Delete Duplicate Files the Easy Way If you want to find and clean up files the easy way, there's no better tool for the job than Duplicate Cleaner Pro 4. It's easy to use and chock full of features. Download a free trial and see for yourself whether you like it. Download