This is why windows defender sucks

[Guest yacraighead]

Since when have you stopped listing "threat" names/locations on the detection page? I just got a false positive, and had to dig into event logs to figure out why MsMpEng was slowing my PC to a crawl.. Turns out you thought nvidia was changing my hosts file without permission, and decided to freeze my firefox when i attempted a quarantine. Noice.Info from the "Windows security" page (what an oxymoron): [cant be copy pasted, because reasons? Here's a screenshot..And here's the much more helpful windows event log info, that finally told me what file was actually in question.. Very nice way to fin

 

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