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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject: Death By Auto-Immune Disease
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:54:15 -0000 (UTC)
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The parallels between PC antivirus software and the body’s immune
system know no bounds. Here’s another one: sometimes the immune system
mistakenly identifies some of the body’s own cells as the enemy, and
proceeds to destroy them.

This has happened with Windows antivirus software before, and here’s
another case
<https://www.theverge.com/report/629259/winring0-windows-defender-fan-control-pc-monitoring-alert-quarantine>:
a privileged kernel-level toolkit used by many monitoring and
fan-control apps is now being identified by Windows Defender as
malware, and the apps that install it are being blocked.

Apparently the open-source “WinRing0” toolkit in question has known
vulnerabilities. But these vulnerabilities have already been patched
in a newer version. However, the new version cannot be deployed until
Microsoft issues a digital signature for it. Which it will not do
without charging some hefty fee. Which the developers in question
cannot afford to pay.

Do you think maybe the entire Windows ecosystem is fundamentally
hostile to open-source software?