What I really don't like about Defender and other antivirus products is they'll silently send your files to the mothership to be analyzed, without even letting you know that's happened, or any straightforward way to find out. I understand that's a large source of new malware samples for them, but it's an awful antiprivacy behavior.
MS Windows Defender and DeCSS
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Re: MS Windows Defender and DeCSS
#92Do tech aware people like nearly everyone in this forum, need Defender (or another AV) to run at all? How many people here completely or partially stop it from running?
Do you disassemble every EXE file before running it? Do you have an absolute protection against zero-days? (In the latter case it can't protect you against initial infection, but it will clear things up once the threat is discovered.)
Do you? With sufficient expertise that would provide better protection than AV software.
Re: MS Windows Defender and DeCSS
#93What I really don't like about Defender and other antivirus products is they'll silently send your files to the mothership to be analyzed, without even letting you know that's happened, or any straightforward way to find out. I understand that's a large source of new malware samples for them, but it's an awful antiprivacy behavior.
Another dark pattern here is that there's an option to turn this off, and I turned it off, only to be nagged weekly to turn it back on! Fuckers don't take no for an answer, until I'm nagged into clicking yes. And the UI acts like this is some security warning, with a yellow exclamation mark and everything.
Re: MS Windows Defender and DeCSS
#94To 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…
I don't care how broad your definition is, it shouldn't include the mp4 files in my hard drive.
How so? Everything that's interacted with by a computer can be exploited - in case of media files, here's[0] one example that gets talked about. I understand your frustration about flagging your harmless files as malicious, but it really shows just how difficult is to properly detect malware.
[0] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/97856/can-simpl...
Re: MS Windows Defender and DeCSS
#95His comment in /r/sysadmin: "Setting a Windows Defender exception to the folder does not prevent the quarantine from occurring. I re-ran this test three times trying exceptions and even the entire NAS drive as on the excluded list." Windows Defender is overriding the user whitelist?
Absolutely it does. I had one problematic file that I had to add it to the whitelist every month or so, otherwise Defender removed it. Nevermind the fact that adding it to the whitelist was a PITA, I never figured out why the setting haven't stuck; the file in question wasn't changing at all.
Re: MS Windows Defender and DeCSS
#96Maybe this is a good time to ask a dumb question.... how do yall disable windows defender?
I spent a weekend on it last year and couldn't figure it out. Best I could surmise is that I need to wipe my hard drive and install a sketchy copy of "mad max edition" windows 10 enterprise, which I would have to download on TPB or some other Warez site.
Re: MS Windows Defender and DeCSS
#97Maybe this is a good time to ask a dumb question.... how do yall disable windows defender? I spent a weekend on it last year and couldn't figure it out. Best I could surmise is that I need to wipe my hard drive and install a sketchy copy of "mad max edition" windows 10 enterprise, which I would have to download on TPB or some other Warez site.
Not sure why you’d want to disable virus protection, but Microsoft has a guide should you want to: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/turn-off-defende...
Re: MS Windows Defender and DeCSS
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a relative beginner to development and have found no issues with WSL2 so far. Any pitfalls to be aware of?
When I was using wsl1 I ran into ocassional nuisances: needing to specify a windows mount point and having a problem with phpstorm connecting to it (iirc I had to use a docker for windows setting which was referred to as legacy or insecure maybe). 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 d…
WSL2 is so much better than WSL1
Re: MS Windows Defender and DeCSS
#99Do tech aware people like nearly everyone in this forum, need Defender (or another AV) to run at all? How many people here completely or partially stop it from running?
On one very tiring day I decided I wanted to see that stupid useless video someone had sent me, and I updated Flash to see it. It failed and I thought no more of it.
Happily, the worm detected Avast and shut it down regularly and that's how I 4h later found out I had behaved like a regular user instead of a power one.
AV helps: 1) People do stupid things 2) defense in depth
Re: MS Windows Defender and DeCSS
#100Maybe this is a good time to ask a dumb question.... how do yall disable windows defender? I spent a weekend on it last year and couldn't figure it out. Best I could surmise is that I need to wipe my hard drive and install a sketchy copy of "mad max edition" windows 10 enterprise, which I would have to download on TPB or some other Warez site.
Not sure why you’d want to disable virus protection, but Microsoft has a guide should you want to: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/turn-off-defende...
> Follow these steps to temporarily turn off real-time Microsoft Defender antivirus protection in Windows Security.
How long is "temporary"?
> Not sure why you’d want to disable virus protection
Because Microsoft's implementation drags ass when fighting with one of Microsoft's other terrible messes - visual studio.
Also. It's my fucking computer.