My head canon is that this happens because Microsoft’s security team is feuding with whoever developed this particular software.
… It recognized itself as a security threat.
Well… I mean … technically its not wrong…
My favorite thing these days is putting my windows laptop in airplane mode before installing anything. It goes all buggy and aggressive about “we don’t know if this is a threat!!!” Meanwhile it always flags these installers as a threat anyway, and offline whining is easier to get through.
Yes yes, I know, windows bad mmmmkay, all my other computers are linux, I keep this on windows for “but moooooom I don’t want to have to mess with a load of shit just to test this game to see if I even like it enough to go through the arduous process to install on linux” reasons
Defender is a joke. SmartScreen is piss trash.
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It would be great if Windows Defender could protect your computer from ever installing Windows 11.
