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all antivirus sw is blocking all the demoscene-releases(size coding 4k, 64k, etc.) and constantly deleting my own releases after windowsupdate turns the defender on again...


Exactly my experience. I downloaded a large archive of demoscenes. It lead to a lot of "fun" with Windows Defender.

Just my imagination: If a malicious attacker would like to "convince" a victim to turn off the antivirus software, I can imagine this might be a good starting point how to annoy the user sufficiently.


That’s probably due to the use of self modifying code


You can whitelist a directory on WD's settings.




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