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hulitu • today at 6:59 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

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

Like any antivirus program did 30 years ago. I know, SW is hard at Microsoft but ...


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cowlevel • today at 7:21 AM

30 years ago they couldn't upload it because you didn't have an internet connection, but if everyone did it would have, because they didn't know the origin of an exe file 30 years ago either.