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Why does bitdefender let me download Brave so easily but not Librewold? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by kingpepe8006@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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So i downloaded Brave on windows 10 a few months ago and i remember that it was pretty easy without any hiccups but last week when i tried to download librewolf a message poped up saying that it may be harmful for your computer even tho i downloaded it from the official source

Is it just me or is microsoft getting more and more desperate to collect our data?

*Edit: Sorry it wasn't bitdefender it was something like Antimalware service executable or something like that which i think is a microsoft product

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[–] oleorun@piefed.lemmy.fan 9 points 4 days ago

It's a known false positive. I can't speculate as to why it still hasn't been fixed but your suspicion might be correct. Who knows.