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New 'Defendnot' tool tricks Windows into disabling Microsoft Defender (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 7 months ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 points 7 months ago

Interesting.

Seems again, that this won't affect enterprise systems because of things like user rights (users don't run as admin) and GPO that controls the AV.

No admin, it's not getting changed. GPO means even as admin, it probably takes an additional confirmation.

If it gets past both of those...

For the average home user, this is why you don't run as admin. That's 98% of the reason you don't see stuff like this on Linux: defaults have the initial user account not have root - you setup a root password during install, and a separate user account.