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Microsoft Defender Flags Tor Browser as a Trojan and Removes it from the System - Deform(deform.co)

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Pxtl@lemmy.ca
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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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aidan@lemmy.world
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Imo, compared to how prevalent viruses were on older versions of windows, this type paranoia seems to be working

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McBain@feddit.ch
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It blocked my lousy dll injector that was made for debugging.

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