Not surprised. Just the other day I found Defender using a significant portion of my CPU, which was curious because I have Defender disabled. Did a virus and malware scan thinking it was some other program calling itself Defender, nothing. Double checked windows antivirus settings, claims it is disabled. So off to google which leads me to more ways to hard disable Defender, and it worked confirming Defender was used as a screen by Microsoft for a more nefarious process. There is nothing legitimate defender could have been doing to be using so much CPU and memory when the antivirus capabilities were disabled.
>So off to google which leads me to more ways to hard disable Defender, and it worked confirming Defender was used as a screen by Microsoft for a more nefarious process
Why immediately jump to "screen by Microsoft for a more nefarious process"? It sounds like you were sloppy with your initial disabling (or more charitably, microsoft dark patterns), so you actually disabled "real time protection" or whatever, rather than everything.
30 years ago they couldn't upload it because you didn't have an internet connection, but if everyone did it would have, because they didn't know the origin of an exe file 30 years ago either.
Not surprised. Just the other day I found Defender using a significant portion of my CPU, which was curious because I have Defender disabled. Did a virus and malware scan thinking it was some other program calling itself Defender, nothing. Double checked windows antivirus settings, claims it is disabled. So off to google which leads me to more ways to hard disable Defender, and it worked confirming Defender was used as a screen by Microsoft for a more nefarious process. There is nothing legitimate defender could have been doing to be using so much CPU and memory when the antivirus capabilities were disabled.
So basically, paranoia confirmed.
>So off to google which leads me to more ways to hard disable Defender, and it worked confirming Defender was used as a screen by Microsoft for a more nefarious process
Why immediately jump to "screen by Microsoft for a more nefarious process"? It sounds like you were sloppy with your initial disabling (or more charitably, microsoft dark patterns), so you actually disabled "real time protection" or whatever, rather than everything.
Please kill the background "green rain" animation after 10 seconds or something.
> I object to uploading my unreleased builds under that default.
How is Defender supposed to know the origin of an exe on disk?
> How is Defender supposed to know the origin of an exe on disk?
Like any antivirus program did 30 years ago. I know, SW is hard at Microsoft but ...
30 years ago they couldn't upload it because you didn't have an internet connection, but if everyone did it would have, because they didn't know the origin of an exe file 30 years ago either.
> 30 years ago they couldn't upload it because you didn't have an internet connection
No, in 1996 it's extremely likely that they did have an Internet connection, though probably a crummy dialup one.
Not in 1996 it wasn't "extremely likely". A quick google tells me that in the UK for example 3% of homes had internet connections in 1996
And how many used a computer?
29% of UK homes owned a computer in 1996. So about 10% of those computers were internet connected
Why I haven't trusted Microsoft for over 20 years now.
This reads like an ad.
Abort, Retry, Fail, Install Linux?
(Or ameliorated )
I am always confused when people complain about windows but actually use it. Just why?
Is this an ad or is the author genuinely surprised by this?
Maybe a reason it took 3 submissions? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50459762 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50455563
Their profile says that they're a cybersecurity professional, so it's probably just an ad
I mean, it kind of makes sense. In any case, stop using Windows.
sl-op