• Vince@lemmy.world
    573·
    10 months ago

    Is this considered a bad thing? I mean I haven’t had a computer virus in a decade, so it seems to be working.

    • onion@feddit.de
      35·
      10 months ago

      I’m no expert, but your browsers security features and windows defender probably play a role too

      • Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world
        41·
        10 months ago

        MS thinks the new Teams is a virus. In Edge it asks if you’re sure you want to keep the download, it could be harmful.

        • bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
          11·
          10 months ago

          Edge has no way to find out that the random .exe you just downloaded is Microsoft Teams and has not been tampered with. It would be reckless to not warn the user about downloading files from the web.

          • Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world
            1·
            10 months ago

            It came from their site, directly from the link inside the personal teams splash page… Can’t fingerprint it? Or read the md5?

            • bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
              11·
              10 months ago

              What would they compare the MD5 against? This would mean having all the MD5 files of all the software on all the internet baked right into edge. Or they would have to configure (probably multiple) repositories of known good MD5s to check against. All that’s quite a lot of work just to save you from having to click “Yes” once more.

              If you really want to only use software that MS deems safe, why not use the Microsoft store instead of downloading the software yourself?

                • bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  why are you arguing about this?

                  We are arguing about this. And I’m doing this because you’re not getting that what you’re asking for is impossible. Even if you’re downloading a file from a server called microsoft.com via SSL, the file may still be corrupt. The chance is slim, but still the risk is too big for Microsoft to tell their users, “Go ahead, it’s fine.”

    • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      271·
      10 months ago

      It’s not inherently bad, at least from the user’s perspective, but Windows Defender will make you click “more info” or something before giving you the “run anyways” button since it thinks it’s a risk. I’ve never gotten a virus doing this, though

      • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
        121·
        10 months ago

        On MacOs it’s so stupid. Instead of double-clicking on the new program to open it, you need to right-click and hit “Open” from the drop down menu. Only then does it even give you the option to open the program anyway.

      • Johanno@feddit.de
        2·
        10 months ago

        Because viruses fake a licence so they don’t get detected that easily. Which means the extremely expensive license you have to buy from Microsoft is useless for actual security.

    • WormFood@lemmy.world
      192·
      10 months ago

      I too enjoy having to get Microsoft’s permission to execute a program that I wrote