Hackernews posts about Windows Defender

Windows Defender is Microsoft's built-in anti-virus and malware protection software that helps keep users' Windows-based computers safe from various types of threats.

1. WinRing0: Why Windows is flagging your monitoring and fan control apps as threat (www.theverge.com)
   6 points by zdw 21 days ago | 1 comments
2. WinRing0: Why Windows is flagging your PC monitoring apps as a threat (www.theverge.com)
   6 points by Numerlor 22 days ago | discuss
3. WinRing0: Why Windows is flagging your PC monitoring apps as a threat (www.theverge.com)
   1 points by conductor 10 days ago | discuss
4. Ask HN: How should I rewrite my UI to be cross-platform (mobile and desktop)?
   1 points by willprice89 18 days ago | 5 comments
5. Show HN: Kfe – Cross-Platform Search Engine for Local Multimedia Files (github.com)
   1 points by flok3n 19 days ago | discuss
6. Firefox engineers discover a Windows Defender bug that causes high CPU usage (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
   630 points by mconley almost 2 years ago | 215 comments
7. A slightly more fun way to disable Windows Defender (through the WSC API) (github.com)
   78 points by croes 10 months ago | 44 comments
8. Microsoft didn't sandbox Windows Defender, so I did (2017) (blog.trailofbits.com)
   63 points by LorenDB 6 months ago | 51 comments
9. Hackers used new Windows Defender zero-day to drop DarkMe malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
   8 points by croes about 1 year ago | discuss
10. Windows Defender is now blocking ExplorerPatcher (twitter.com)
    6 points by ndiddy 11 months ago | discuss
11. Windows Defender detects Trojan:Win32/Malgent MTB in TorBrowser (old.reddit.com)
    6 points by croes over 1 year ago | discuss
12. Ask HN: Windows Defender is making Windows 11 unusably slow
    5 points by roschdal about 2 months ago | 4 comments
13. Windows Defender Flags Tor as Trojan (forum.torproject.org)
    4 points by throwitawayq over 1 year ago | 1 comments
14. Windows Defender (vividfax.itch.io)
    3 points by CharlesW over 1 year ago | discuss
15. Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Windows Defender bug that was killing Firefox perfor (www.techspot.com)
    3 points by todsacerdoti almost 2 years ago | discuss
16. Ten Ways to Bypass Windows Defender (www.fo-sec.com)
    2 points by belter almost 2 years ago | discuss
17. Windows Defender finally squashes Firefox bug that ate CPUs for 5 years (www.pcworld.com)
    2 points by isaacfrond almost 2 years ago | discuss
18. Microsoft finally fixes 5 year old Windows Defender bug on Mozilla Firefox (www.neowin.net)
    2 points by quyleanh almost 2 years ago | discuss
19. Easy Way to Achieve a Meterpreter Session by Bypassing Windows Defender (medium.com)
    1 points by zilbon 3 months ago | discuss
20. Windows Defender (vividfax.itch.io)
    1 points by colinprince over 1 year ago | discuss
21. Ask HN: Do you build your own antivirus?
    3 points by jdthedisciple almost 2 years ago | 6 comments
22. Introduction to Windows Log Analytics
    3 points by RayMinds 10 months ago | 1 comments
23. EsyEDA download is giving me virus alerts, has it been hacked?
    2 points by smartestdumbguy over 1 year ago | 1 comments
24. Trojan.Win32/Powessere.G / Detection Mitigation Bypass Part 2 (hyp3rlinx.altervista.org)
    1 points by croes about 1 year ago | discuss
25. Utility creator claims OTT security hoops are harmful to indie devs (2020) (www.theregister.com)
    6 points by susam over 1 year ago | 3 comments
26. ‘Defender Pretender’ turns Windows’ malware protections against itself (www.scmagazine.com)
    9 points by LinuxBender over 1 year ago | discuss
27. June Windows Server updates break Microsoft 365 Defender features (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
    3 points by mikece 9 months ago | discuss
28. Windows API that lets you disable Defender (infosec.exchange)
    3 points by ementally 10 months ago | discuss
29. MS Defender thinks you created your own Windows PC virus by writing this line (www.neowin.net)
    4 points by croes 9 months ago | discuss
30. Honest Question: What's wrong with an offline or standalone malware scanner?
    1 points by pyeri 9 months ago | 2 comments
31. How to design a platform-independent UI framework?
    5 points by CodeVisio 7 months ago | 9 comments
32. Ask HN: Developing on windows stack with a non-windows OS
    1 points by vonadz 4 months ago | 4 comments
33. Technology's grip on modern life is pushing us down a dimly lit path (apnews.com)
    7 points by prossercj 8 months ago | discuss
34. Show HN: Arelo – A simple, flexible file watcher for auto-restarting commands (github.com)
    5 points by makki_d about 2 months ago | 1 comments
35. Ask HN: How do you reduce your online risk profile?
    4 points by lighthammer 10 months ago | 5 comments