If Microsoft Defender has begun issuing warnings on your gaming PC for a “Winring0 vulnerable driver,” you have a major choice to make: you can set an exception and exempt popular RGB and fan control applications, but you’ll run the risk of malware exploiting it to attack your PC.

As identified by Microsoft , Defender might issue a warning identifying that “VulnerableDriver:WinNT/Winring0” has been detected on your PC. And it’s a valid concern, because it ties back to a known vulnerablilty in two drivers, WinRing0.sys and WinRing0x64.sys, as recorded by the NIST, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The problem is that those drivers are the foundation for many, many third-party applications that take advantage of the drivers for controlling functions like fan speed and RGB lighti

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