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We are using Defender at work, too. There is a group policy that lets Defender do a full system scan once a week. To not interfere with the user there allegedly is a group policy setting to limit the CPU usage and it is set to 15%. The thing is, it simply does not work. Every week my fans spin up to max, Defender hogs all my CPU cores, 25% of my GPU according to the Task Manager. Even typing becomes laggy. The only w…
Wait...your are local Admin on your machine?
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My win10 install recently started deleting my install of qBittorrent, which I very much want installed and use daily, as "potentially unwanted software". Exceptions kept getting ignored so just today I disabled the entire category of potentially unwanted software in win defender. It feels like they're just getting capricious in their scope for flagging things now.
I personally never really vibed with qbittorrent. Stuck with deluge for years. May I ask why you use qbit?
MS Windows Defender is generally good (I actually prefer it and preferred its SecurityEssentials predecessor to all the other antiviruses) but seems really notorious in removing non-virus "threats". It also removes NirSoft (and some Sysinternals IIRC) utilities regularly. Yesterday, trying to download the recent version of LibreOffice, I have even found found out I have no qBitTorrent installed any more - it killed i…
FWIW I installed and ran qBitTorrent recently and it didn't complain.
Did a complete reinstall without installing any scene software and the problem was solved. Just because people haven't taken the time to properly investigate the security of cracks and keygens doesn't mean that they don't contain actual trojans.
To be fair, this does look like a false positive. In general, the desktop antivirus space in 2021 is a mess. Because of the sheer number of malware, and some obfuscation techniques used by some of it, antivirus software has to use very broad regular expressions for describing the malware, counterbalanced by huge whitelists of known mainstream software. If you don't qualify as a "mainstream software vendor", simply bu…
Let alone documents with macros...
Having said that, I wouldn't want to be one of those having to implement detection logics because the malware jungle is so creative that it's pretty much an impossible job they have to do.
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That's exactly the one single reason why no one should give a developer a Windows machine in a enterprise environment ;)
Well that and the shitty dev tools on Windows in general ;)
I'm so happy to see a thread on Windows Defender, because my org recently switched antivirus software and I can't wait to tell you how bad it is ! There's a hidden feature in Defender, that will delight any user : it can turn your 15" MacBook Pro into a full breakfast machine. Want pancakes ? Start a zoom call. While you wait for your favorite video conference app to start, don't hope to finish your docker pull/save/…
Oh man....a mac with antivirus software...is your IT's mindset from the 90s?
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Well that and the shitty dev tools on Windows in general ;)
I'm a relative beginner to development and have found no issues with WSL2 so far. Any pitfalls to be aware of?
It wasn't too bad though honestly.
I ended up swapping to debian after my workplace rolled out some insane MDM policies / forced application installs. It is much nicer to dev in *nix
MS Windows Defender is generally good (I actually prefer it and preferred its SecurityEssentials predecessor to all the other antiviruses) but seems really notorious in removing non-virus "threats". It also removes NirSoft (and some Sysinternals IIRC) utilities regularly. Yesterday, trying to download the recent version of LibreOffice, I have even found found out I have no qBitTorrent installed any more - it killed i…
I don't know if my installation is broken, but I haven't had Defender remove what I thought was a legitimate binary since I first installed Windows 10. Literally not one single time on half a dozen installations. FWIW I installed and ran qBitTorrent recently and it didn't complain.
Probably because you are closer to a "typical" kind of user who doesn't use "hack tools" (which some people like me use for absolutely legal and benevolent purposes "hacking" their own PC, e.g. to backup the passwords and e-mail records saved on it). By the way it also is very important to distinguish between a legitimate hack tool and an infected hack tool and I am not sure they do.
> I installed and ran qBitTorrent recently and it didn't complain.
They just added a slightly old version to their threats database and didn't add the most recent version there yet.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclo...
https://www.reddit.com/r/qBittorrent/comments/lwqjm9/qbitbor...