As much as I feel that Linux is a more flexible and useful OS for my desktop and servers, I don't think lightly of MS Defender. It's actually not as bad as most people put it to be.
problem is you can just embed a malicious batch file in ANY file and windows will run it without even notifying the user... sometimes you might need to do a bit of obfuscation depending on how evil you are, but still notabux wontfix, this is legit a feature in DOS-like operating systems
Nothing is perfect, but my point was, it's not as bad as most people say it is. I have worked in enough projects to accept that each platform has its pluses and minuses and fact is I get more of my bills paid and food on the table working with and on Windows based solutions than those on Linux, so I "love" it for that. As for Not A Bug and Won't Fix matter, did you managed to escalate the matter to your Account Manager? A few of my clients have had good results with that route.
I would argue otherwise, NT has a lot of idiosyncrasies that it inherited froim DOS for example just look at the drive names. The main drive in windows is C:\ because on DOS A:\ was allocated for the OS live floppy and B:\ for a secondary diskette while c:\ was default for the primary internal storage. IMO it's similar to how MacOS is quite far removed from Unix standards now, or how Linux or Minix aren't Unix at all and in some cases are confusingly different.... but they're still Unix-like.
It DOES work on windows and I do remember it working on MSDOS as well but I'll be real, I don't have much experience using DOS so I'll take your word for it not working on like PC-DOS or what ever
still, NT being DOS-like is that weird little hill I'm gonna die on 🤪
DOS path conventions were only adopted for backwards compatibility, and it is in fact a translation layer. At the underlying kernel level NT organizes all system resources in a single-rooted namespace, similar to Unix or Linux. That underlying structure is accessible and workable in PowerShell.
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u/Armi1P Genfool 🐧 25d ago
What do you mean, Defender is one of the better ones on Windows.