• Defender reports a false positive

    Posted on March 3, 2022 at 13:01 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Gunter Born reports on Borncity.

    Microsoft defender is triggering a false positive on Dell laptops specifically on the Dell Support Assist Remediation Service tool.  Don’t panic, it’s not you, it’s them.

    I have a love/hate relationship with OEM tools.  Often they are wonderful.  Often they introduce vulnerabilities.  Often you have no idea they are installed.

    Bottom line, no antivirus is perfect and quite frankly, no one is better than you being a teeny weeny bit paranoid and not clicking in the first place.

    Windows Security
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