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Microsoft Defender Flags Tor Browser as a Trojan and Removes It from the System

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Microsoft Defender Flags Tor Browser as a Trojan and Removes It from the System

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Microsoft Defender Flags Tor Browser as a Trojan and Removes it from the System - Deform
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Windows users have recently begun mass-reporting that Microsoft's Defender antivirus program, which is integrated into Windows 10 and 11 by default, is

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    This is crazy, but yet another reason to use Brave as a Tor browser actually, at least as a backup

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      Not recommended

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        Fair enough. I only use it as a backup Tor browser.

        At the very least it’s a great way to get the Tor browser if your internet is censored like the Christian college I went to was.

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          That is fair, I guess it really depends on the end goal, but they are different in what they hide and how reliable they are from an open source perspective.

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