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		garganzol on Sept 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted Maybe this explains why Defender (Microsoft's AV) became so overly aggressive during previous few months. They had a problem and acted in a semi-panic mode forcing Defender to mark nearly everything as a "virus" when its Cloud Protection mode was turned on.

kstrauser on Sept 29, 2023 [–]

Uh, are you certain of that? When security alarms start going off, “darn, they broke the detector!” isn’t the only explanation.

garganzol on Sept 29, 2023 | [–]

I'm certain as I'm in the field. Another plausible explanation is a wider rollout of a ML-based tech which is not very discrete in its detections.

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