Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent • Hacker News Board

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by JohnWhigham » Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 1:32 PM UTC

Subsentient wrote: post #10

Well you'd really have to be crazy to try and torrent stuff on a Windows machine nowadays anyways. That's just getting on your knees and begging for malware. Maybe this will help some of the more savvy users realize that Windows should be relegated to a virtual machine for when you need a specific Windows app that doesn't run under Wine, and never given access to real hardware. I only use my Win10 VM for compiling st…

That's just getting on your knees and begging for malware.

We're not in 2007 anymore.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by AbrahamParangi » Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 1:33 PM UTC

deepstack wrote: post #6

AbrahamParangi wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does seem that torrent software is very likely unwanted by the customer on enterprise, where the customer is the business.

Hmm, many Linux distro are distributed via Torrent. As well as many video platform also use webtorrent. It is a just protocol like http. And when one is downloading a really large file, torrent can arguably be much better than direct download.

Yes but in practice people often use BitTorrent on their work computer to download music, movies and malware.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by sslayer » Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 1:35 PM UTC

moss2 wrote: post #17

Switching my home computer to Linux has had its problems since I'm an avid gamer, but the more news I read about Windows the less I regret that decision.

I ditched in the middle of Windows 7, with absolutely no regrets. Valve has made tremendous inroads in gaming with Proton, along with developers releasing for Linux, there really isn't a good excuse to stay with Microsoft.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by saiya-jin » Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 1:35 PM UTC

hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #11

deepstack wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm, many Linux distro are distributed via Torrent. As well as many video platform also use webtorrent. It is a just protocol like http. And when one is downloading a really large file, torrent can arguably be much better than direct download.

Sure, I use BitTorrent for Linux isos at work in a highly controlled environment, but for every one of me there would be hundreds pirating software at work, and tens accidentally killing their businesses bandwidth/quota by seeding too much.

Enterprise also expects certain kind of user awareness, or if not then certain amount of admin-set restrictions on the machine. Not these kind of big daddy policing decisions.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet » Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 1:35 PM UTC

Just another way in which the cure (anti-malware software) is worse than the disease (the malware). Slows down every file access and program launch, high false positive rate, is itself a vector for exploitation... why did we ever think this was a good idea?

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet » Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 1:36 PM UTC

sslayer wrote: post #23

moss2 wrote: post #17

Switching my home computer to Linux has had its problems since I'm an avid gamer, but the more news I read about Windows the less I regret that decision.

I ditched in the middle of Windows 7, with absolutely no regrets. Valve has made tremendous inroads in gaming with Proton, along with developers releasing for Linux, there really isn't a good excuse to stay with Microsoft.

Sure their is: Windows is a better fit for the things I do with a computer.

Edit: I know right? How dare I express a preference for Windows. Downvote me to hell because I don't like using your favored OS.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by arsome » Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 1:36 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #15

Defender also doesn't like NirSoft's ProduKey. Which is irritating, as all it's doing is retrieving product keys. If you want to reinstall Windows, it's a pretty normal thing to want to do.

Many NirSoft utilities get detected. Not sure if it's still true, but back in the day it was surprisingly common to find them embedded in password stealing malware, it'd basically run a few different password dumpers, make a zip and send it off to an FTP site. Minimal software development knowledge necessary as the whole operation could be done from a batch script.

Particularly bad malware too since anyone who reverse engineered it could get the FTP site password and download/delete all their stolen passwords.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by kozak » Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 1:36 PM UTC

I recently unpacked an old archive from the time I was making some shareware few decades ago. Windows Defender instantly ate all keygen.exe files from it. Those keygens were my own keygens for my own software (I wrote them myself and used them to generate keys for my customers back in the day).

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by stronglikedan » Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 1:38 PM UTC

marcodiego wrote: post #5

I wonder if the MAFIAA can pressure software vendors to ban classes of software. I think agreements like: "We'll only make it legal to run our streaming service on your OS if you can prevent these specific set of software from running". I think this already happens with TV's but anyone knows if there is already pressure in this direction in the software world?

Everyone would just add a "streaming" user account, and run all the prohibited software under another user.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by Semaphor » Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 1:39 PM UTC

I wonder if this is a weird bug? A/B Test? Locale-specific settings? The thread has several people without the issue and I just checked, Defender is not blocking my qBittorrent.