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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 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Imo, compared to how prevalent viruses were on older versions of windows, this type paranoia seems to be working

[–] McBain@feddit.ch 4 points 1 year ago

It blocked my lousy dll injector that was made for debugging.