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That's the problem with Windows Defender - Microsoft has basically removed the ability for a normal user to configure it to quarantine instead of auto-remediate (delete).

After I caught Windows Defender uploading my places.sqlite in my FF profile "for analysis", I permanently disabled automatic sample submission, auto-remediation, etc via group policies.

I still won't use any other AV though because they are generally even worse about making decisions without user input and don't respect group policies at all unless you are an actual enterprise customer.



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