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For years now antivirus solutions have ridiculous amount of control over the OS. I accidentally installed an adware antivirus the other day that was bundled-up with a third party software, and I had to boot to Linux to manage to completely remove the damn thing from Windows. The uninstall option left a process running that couldn’t be forcefully killed.

Microsoft needs to take control and forbid anyone and anything from running software with that kind of behavior.



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