{"id":29146,"date":"2026-09-07T14:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/windows-11-wants-your-trust-microsoft-keeps-testing-it\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:35:09","slug":"windows-11-wants-your-trust-microsoft-keeps-testing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/windows-11-wants-your-trust-microsoft-keeps-testing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11 wants your trust. Microsoft keeps testing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn&#8217;t affect our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/about\/affiliate-link-policy\" target=\"_blank\">editorial independence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> \t\t \t\t \t \t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\tWindows 11 has a habit of crying wolf. Users could get devoured by real threats as a result.\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t     <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft launched Windows 11 as the most secure Windows ever built\u2014and the marketing was almost convincing at the time. Almost five years later, I can\u2019t say the same. And that\u2019s a problem.<\/p>\n<p>A recent bug in Windows was the final straw. About a week ago, Microsoft confirmed users are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3223641\/windows-10-and-11-users-are-seeing-a-defender-warning-that-isnt-real.html\">mistakenly being alerted<\/a> that Defender, Windows\u2019 native antivirus protection, has been turned off.<\/p>\n<p><em>Welcome to Safe Mode, your weekly report for pressing security and privacy news\u2014and what steps to take next.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3226900\/windows-11-wants-your-trust-microsoft-keeps-testing-it.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn&#8217;t affect our editorial independence . Windows 11 has a habit of crying wolf. Users could get devoured by real threats as a result. Microsoft launched Windows 11 as the most secure Windows ever built\u2014and the marketing was almost convincing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":29147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36,2328],"class_list":["post-29146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-mixtv","tag-security-software-and-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}