Microsoft Defender Flags Tor Browser as a Trojan and Removes It from the System

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• Gemini24601@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So Windows detects one of the most secure browsers ever as a virus, yet ships with the most insecure spyware modern browser that it doesn’t let you delete? Something isn’t adding up here. What is it detecting anyway?

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  • foksmash@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s likely due to business rules. We block Tor and all the privacy browsers at work.

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    • Gemini24601@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I guess it kind of makes sense, however, wouldn’t it make more sense to just have these restrictions on Enterprise versions? To have settings made for corporations in home/pro editions further shows Microsoft’s laziness. Thank you foksmash for your insight though, I am not familiar with a setting like yours.

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Malware Bytes keeps doing this for Cheat Engine.

  If I mod an offline game for my enjoyment that’s my fucking business

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  • aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In defense of malware bytes, CE is notoriously shady

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      First I’m hearing of this

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    • 30p87@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not more than third party AVs

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• Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you’re not sure who to trust, the 32-bit version of tor browser doesn’t get flagged right now

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• realcaseyrollins ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is crazy, but yet another reason to use Brave as a Tor browser actually, at least as a backup

  • whostosay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not recommended

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    • realcaseyrollins ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fair enough. I only use it as a backup Tor browser.

      At the very least it's a great way to get the Tor browser if your internet is censored like the Christian college I went to was.

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