I caught Microsoft Defender uploading my unreleased software without asking

Not surprised. Just the other day I found Defender using a significant portion of my CPU, which was curious because I have Defender disabled. Did a virus and malware scan thinking it was some other program calling itself Defender, nothing. Double checked windows antivirus settings, claims it is disabled. So off to google which leads me to more ways to hard disable Defender, and it worked confirming Defender was used as a screen by Microsoft for a more nefarious process. There is nothing legitimate defender could have been doing to be using so much CPU and memory when the antivirus capabilities were disabled.

So basically, paranoia confirmed.

> I object to uploading my unreleased builds under that default.

How is Defender supposed to know the origin of an exe on disk?

Why I haven't trusted Microsoft for over 20 years now.

Please kill the background "green rain" animation after 10 seconds or something.

Abort, Retry, Fail, Install Linux?

(Or ameliorated )

Is this an ad or is the author genuinely surprised by this?

This reads like an ad.

sl-op