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Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by willis936 »

gruez wrote: post #56
finalis wrote: post #40

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I used to think that too before I made the switch to macOS. Yes it was a learning curve initially, but it wasn't unmanageable, and you start to uncover Windows annoyances that you never knew existed because you were used to them and conditioned into thinking they were normal for so long. You'd be surprised how flexible your needs are when you aren't pigeonholing yourself.

>and you start to uncover Windows annoyances that you never knew existed because you were used to them and conditioned into thinking they were normal for so long ..which promptly get replaced with mac annoyances. Random ones off the top of my head: * closing a window (using the red x icon) doesn't close the app * overwriting a folder deletes existing contents, rather than merging them * weird scroll acceleration that…

>* overwriting a folder deletes existing contents, rather than merging them

Wait. If there truly is not a setting for this then it makes finder unusable as a file explorer and arguably the entire OS. Recursive merge is one of the most fundamental things a personal computer does.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by neonihil »

criddell wrote: post #96
dtx1 wrote: post #51

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I basically do the same thing. Why bother figuring out how to run Netflix with DRM on Linux and pay for the pleaser of a subpar libary when my little Raspberry Pi Seedbox, a 5$/Month VPN and Membership in a private Tracker gets me everything I want without the hassle or annoying DRM to deal with. But we are not the ones that will be hit by this. It's the normies and computer illiterates that will have to deal with th…

> Why bother figuring out how to run Netflix with DRM on Linux Because you want to pay for things. You want to support people making the things you enjoy. You want Netflix and other streaming companies to see that Linux users matter.

What if you pay for Netflix — because you want to support creators, — but you actually download stuff — because you also want to be able to watch it without hustle?

Like Netflix 4K is not working on Linux. It’s just not. And it wasn’t working on Macs either until very recently, but it needs some special hardware.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by 13of40 »

ethbr0 wrote: post #97
httpsterio wrote: post #89

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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.

Also, AFAIK by spec, the manifest of a zip file is unencrypted, even if the zip "is". Most scanners are too brain dead to care, but I have come across a few that still quarantine if the manifest lists a file with a blacklisted extension. Easy solution? Compress to zip, then compress that zip to another zip, with a password. (Yes, I've spent far too long trying to get work done underneath insane corporate security pol…

Gmail will block you from sending a a password-protected ZIP with anything potentially bad in it, like an EXE, because they can see the individual file headers and central directory, like you say. Unfortunately, if you have a ZIP inside a passworded ZIP it also gets considered dangerous and blocked.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by ogurechny »

MikeUt wrote: post #2

It's the official Microsoft stance that torrent software is considered PUA (potentially unwanted application) on Enterprise. Perhaps they're expanding that to consumer versions? They define PUA very vaguely, with rather disturbing language. Phrases like "safeguard productivity" and "help deliver delightful Windows experiences" are not what I would expect in security software documentation: Our PUA protection aims to…

I suppose that in enterprise environment Defender acts as a simple agent reporting to a control center that can be set with a lot more granular rules on whether something is wanted on a specific workplace.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by l30n4da5 »

Subsentient wrote: post #101
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #95

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Windows is definitely more user-hostile than it has been in the past, and seems to be becoming more so[0], but honestly I'll still take Windows over a Linux Desktop any day because it works in a way that is much more in line with how I want my computer to work. Your attitude seems to very much be "you're an idiot for still using Windows and Linux is great", which is condescending as hell. [0] I am by no means defendi…

Ahh, well no. I don't think Windows users are idiots. I think they're normal, non-technical people who don't want to drop to a terminal to pair their bluetooth earbuds because the BlueZ GUI was written in an afternoon by some rando and never worked right. But I do admit that for programmers , I don't understand why they'd want to still use Windows. I mean obviously there's reasons, but they're totally beyond me. Seem…

> non-technical people who don't want to drop to a terminal

PowerShell exists. and it is LEAPS AND BOUNDS better than bash for pretty much anything related to scripting. so much so that half the time when I needed to write a script on linux, I opted to write it in ruby because bash is just that bad to write anything meaningful with.

To assume that people on windows don't use a terminal is STILL coming across as condescending as hell.

> But I do admit that for programmers, I don't understand why they'd want to still use Windows.

there is an entire development ecosystem built around windows that has been around for decades. Only recently (relatively speaking) has it started to branch out and be OS-agnostic.

Are you actually saying you didn't know .NET Framework existed, or are you just being willfully ignorant?

I used Linux for years as my daily driver OS. Eventually got fed up with it. Driver support for a lot of USB devices is atrocious, and support for HiDpi monitors was still in its infancy when i switched. these are problems that Windows has fixed _right now_ and I don't get paid to fuck with my desktop settings so I can make my monitor display things correctly.

I switched to windows, and if I need anything from linux, there is always the WSL, which is pretty much the best of both worlds for me.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #76
Synaesthesia wrote: post #41

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Yes that's why you have to unzip them on a Mac or Linux PC first. It does the same for Windows Loader by Daz and similar activation cracks for Windows 7/10.

...or you just disable Windows Defender.

Which you can’t do permanently anymore.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by kozak »

zabatuvajdka wrote: post #108
thunderbong wrote: post #85

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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.

Interesting ideas here: how antivirus becomes a form of censorship. Maybe that’s an extreme view but it feels like now that Microsoft supplies it’s own defender app. And like all forms of martial law beginning as a way to protect citizens! I also noticed that with win10 when apps crash it sends the data to Microsoft—as though they can fix 3rd party apps for us. Yeesh. I think I’ll skip out on Windows 11 TYVM.

People are downvoting the above comment for some reason, but what is this Windows Defender behavior if not a form of censorship?

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by michaelt »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #72
mmsimanga wrote: post #70

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I am guessing down votes are not for expressing your opinion but rather for not providing context. Why is Windows better option for you?

Why would it matter? So they could try and change my mind?[0] That I prefer the way Windows works is sufficient reason to continue to use it instead of Linux Desktop. Why is not really relevant. [0] I've played that game a thousand times and it is always an exercise in frustration. No thanks.

> Why would it matter? So they could try and change my mind?

Because you want upvotes, so you gotta give people things to agree with. If I just say "Linux Sucks" I'm not giving people much to agree with, except naked tribalism.

But there are other things I can say that will allow members of my tribe to feel they're not voting tribally - and even some Linux enthusiasts to think I've got a point:

* "Linux doesn't support Photoshop / MS Excel / Altium / SolidWorks"

* "Microsoft's fanatical devotion to binary backwards-compatibility means I don't have to worry old software will break because I've got the wrong version of python installed, or my version of libreadline is too new."

* "I've got an nvidia graphics card, and nvidia drivers on Linux are a right mess"

* "Linux is all-too-often a second-class citizen, both hardware and software makers giving it less testing and support than they do Windows and Mac"

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by josephcsible »

hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #79
saiya-jin wrote: post #24

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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.

Is defender a ‘big daddy policing decision’? You’re welcome to disable it via group policy if you like.

Defender working this way by default is a ‘big daddy policing decision’. The default should be to not do this, and people that want it should have to enable it via Group Policy.
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