• BubblyMango@lemmy.wtf
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    1 year ago

    Dude ms defender used to delete my “Hello World” executables built using visual studio just because they were made by an unknown publisher.

  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure about the browser, but a lot of malware used to ship with the tor binary and used it to connect to the CNC. I can totally see it ending up in the indicator list.

    I love bashing MS as much as the next guy, but this is not completely indefensible behavior given typical user use cases and needs. As long as it’s easy to add an exception of you installed it on purpose.

  • Pxtl@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’ve run into antiviruses blocking code I’ve written just because I pulled in certain cryptographic libs. Literally pulling in some Microsoft cryptography libraries in c# made it think I was writing a crypto locker.

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      1 year ago

      Arch users are never shaking those allegations. Are are aware that people use Tor for other things, right?

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    1 year ago

    A little context, one of the larger exit nodes was compromised and would send malware to your computer. The behavior shield probably caught this and correctly marked the program as a trojan, since, by definition, that’s literally what it was acting as when connected to that node. More advanced AVs (like malwarebytes) will instead block the malicious connection rather than blanket-banning the entire program.

  • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Bruh wtf.

    This is why I rolled back my version of Tor? So I guess I have to add the folder as an exception. Fuck Microsoft.