alt Hacker NewsFeels kind of weird that Windows Defender doesn't have something that catches this kind of behaviour? I mean if you have the Defender settings jacked up you're not going to be able to run executables anyway without a bunch of mucking around which should at least stop accidental running, but feels like some heuristics to stop these kinds of stealers should be a high priority for the Defender team. Not sure how you'd go about it though?
Defender automatically removes malware (or more correctly, game cracks it thinks are malware) the second it hits my disk from my torrent client.
But usually I'm downloading TV on Linux not windows