Windows has recently taken a hard stand on a seemingly innocuous category of utilities—fan control software—with vigilant warnings that such tools can be "dangerous." As it turns out, the devil is in the details, particularly regarding a system driver called WinRing0.
The Heart of the Issue...
Windows Defender’s recent crackdown on gaming tools has stirred up a lively debate among PC enthusiasts. If you’ve noticed that your fan control or RGB lighting applications suddenly stopped cooperating, there’s a good chance it wasn’t your hardware that went haywire—it was Windows Defender...