WinRing0: Why Windows is flagging your PC monitoring and fan control apps as a threat
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2025 3:37 pm
On Tuesday morning, some PC gamers woke up to discover their computers were seemingly under threat. A “HackTool” called WinRing0 had suddenly started triggering a Windows Defender alert, as if their PCs were under attack. Some of those computers even began behaving oddly — like blasting their fans at high speed — once the HackTool had been quarantined. I know, because it happened to me.
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