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Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by dtx1 »

ugjka wrote: post #13
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?

If I can't stream i pirate and I do it on linux. No Loki in my region? Didn't stop me

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 the issue. And god save us from the politicians that will make OSes that can pirate content just plain illegal.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by K5EiS »

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…

Do you use a VM to download everything? Malware exists outside of torrents.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by sneak »

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 have a computer that runs Windows, exclusively for playing video games, and I have another computer for doing work, that will never run Windows outside of a VM.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by adriancr »

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).

check if there's any trojan appended to them... or if you've used UPX to package them then they will automatically get flagged.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by gruez »

finalis wrote: post #40
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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 makes clicky scroll wheels unusable

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by sneak »

l30n4da5 wrote: post #50
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

for the most part, HN is pretty squarely in the 'windows bad linux good' camp. It is dumb af since according to a lot of the users on here, linux is gods gift to humanity. doesn't matter that pretty much all software is a dumpster fire, and linux is just another, less hot dumpster fire compared to windows.

This is a false equivalence.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by djxfade »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #45
finalis wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I have used other operating systems, including Linux and MacOS. While I am fond of MacOS Application Bundles, I do not like many other things, like single-button mice, limited choice in hardware, and relative lack of gaming.

Apple's mice haven't been single button since ages ago. Right click works out of the box, and all of their own mice also supports right clicking in various ways

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by ethbr0 »

cpach wrote: post #46

Any qBittorrent users on Windows who can verify that the issue described actually still persists?

Submitter here. Can confirm.

Defender uninstalled it on a random Windows box of mine today (7/26/2021).

Windows 10 Pro. Version 2004 Build 19041.1110.

Windows Defender updated today (7/26/2021).

Hence the curiousity and submission.

Re: Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent

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Post by Nortech001 »

cpach wrote: post #46

Any qBittorrent users on Windows who can verify that the issue described actually still persists?

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