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Another one a lot of people don't realize ships with Windows 10 & 11 is tar. Specifically bsdtar which along with tar files can also create and extract zip files.
It’s not enabled by default, but under Optional Features you can also install an OpenSSH client, making tools like putty no longer necessary
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> I don't think we're not talking about individual end-users here. Are you sure about that? From TFA: > Lots of Windows users everywhere runs security scanners on their systems with regular intervals in order to verify that their systems are fine. At some point after December 21, 2022, some of these scanners started to detect installations of curl that included the above mentioned CVE. Nessus apparently started this…
The compliance madness I can understand, but for an individual with no legal or management-mandated constraints... Either you're security-conscious or you do random changes based on anonymous forum posts, I just don't really see an overlap. In any case, I don't think it's fair to blame the forums for giving you the solution given your whacky requirements.
I think there's going to be a not-totally-insignificant minority of people out there who are both worried about security, but just don't have great technical knowledge. (They sometimes show up on r/privacy if you need convincing they even exist.) Even if it's a really small percentage of users, given how large the Windows install base is, that's still going to be a fair amount of people looking for any kind of fix for the "problem" that their security scanner has warned them about.
TIL that curl is installed in Windows 10 and 11 - useful article for that alone!
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Every time I run into a Windows related problem I find an answers.microsoft.com post of someone with the exact problem I'm having and every time the thread runs dry after some Verified Super Duper Senior Adviser Technician Microsoft Windows Expert Professional says "have you tried reinstalling Windows 11". I don't know if you get forum points for suggesting wiping your drive or something but I've never seen a useful…
Or have you tried disabling anti-virus...
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Probably the xx in the domain. In the UK where 20% of the internet is blocked – it's surprising you haven't experienced this before. Call your service provider and tell them you want access to adult material.
> Call your service provider and tell them you want access to adult material. That must be one awkward call.