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Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by Subsentient »

l30n4da5 wrote: post #18
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…

>> 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. hurr durr windows bad linux good im so smart. you're practically _soaked_ with condescending smarm. Caureful, or it'll rub off on innocent bystanders.

Windows is the dominant operating system, and as such has a giant target on its back. It's true, I despise Windows, but the risk of torrenting on Linux vs the risk of torrenting on Windows is quite a huge difference.

And look, Microsoft has been user-hostile for years now, the fact is, this kind of behavior from them doesn't surprise me anymore, and I'm tired of watching people take those punches lying down.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by azalemeth »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #65
vetinari wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know you can connect any USB mice you want, right? Right now, I'm using a Steelseries one with a Mac. All six buttons and the scroll-wheel work fine.

> You know you can connect any USB mice you want, right? Yes, I'm aware of that. When I last seriously used MacOS X it was still the PPC era, and while technically you could use a 2 button mouse it wasn't really designed for it. Anyway, compared to other complaints that's a minor gripe of mine.

> and while technically you could use a 2 button mouse it wasn't really designed for it.

I don't quite think this is true. I'm pretty certain that MacOS 9 had a right click menu if you plugged in a two button mouse; I've used MacOS since version 6 and I recall distinctly right click being a novelty in OS 8.

Apple's philosophy always was that context menus could aid other workflows in the program, but couldn't replace them -- the functionality had to be accessible in some other way. Which, I thought, certainly makes sense if 90% of your users have a one button mouse. Could this be what you're thinking of?

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

#84

Post by Subsentient »

JohnWhigham wrote: post #21
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.

You'll keep thinking that until you pirate a copy of Adobe Shitware 2077(tm) and it works fine for a day until the embedded cryptolocker activates and holds everything on your system hostage for 3 bitcoin.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

#85

Post by thunderbong »

kozak wrote: post #28

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).

This happened to me as well. Even when those keygens were in zipped files, Defender would flag them as malware and remove them automatically.

The only solution I found to this was to keep the keygens in a password protected zipped files.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

l30n4da5 wrote: post #18
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…

>> 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. hurr durr windows bad linux good im so smart. you're practically _soaked_ with condescending smarm. Caureful, or it'll rub off on innocent bystanders.

I don't particularly like the way you said it, but the sentiment is most definitely shared. It seems like this attitude is incredibly common in the Linux Desktop community and it is definitely not working in their favor.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by allo37 »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #25

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?

I'm convinced most of this anti-malware software is largely security theatre, but it helps IT departments sleep better at night I guess.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by httpsterio »

ethbr0 wrote: post #36
sdoering wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow. Any idea why?

I'd also be curious what happens if you rename them to {not-keygen}.exe I'd hope it wouldn't make a difference, but my experience with IT security thinking makes me bet the other way.

It sadly doesn't make a difference. I have about a dozen keygens on my machine and they get quarantined unless they're zipped behind a password or zipped into a 7z.

Just downloading a zip with a keygens inside, it gets removed from the zip before even unarchiving it.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

Subsentient wrote: post #84
JohnWhigham wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's just getting on your knees and begging for malware. We're not in 2007 anymore.

You'll keep thinking that until you pirate a copy of Adobe Shitware 2077(tm) and it works fine for a day until the embedded cryptolocker activates and holds everything on your system hostage for 3 bitcoin.

If you ran Linux executables you torrented you'd have the exact same problem.
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