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Comment by AbrahamParangi | Hacker News Reader

It does seem that torrent software is very likely unwanted by the customer on enterprise, where the customer is the business.

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Hmm, many Linux distro are distributed via Torrent. As well as many video platform also use webtorrent. It is a just protocol like http. And when one is downloading a really large file, torrent can arguably be much better than direct download.

That might be true, but let's be real here: torrents are overwhelmingly used to pirate software/videos/music. The categorization is "potentially unwanted", not " definitely unwanted", so I think the classification is justified. Also, despite "linux iso torrents" being a meme in many circles I have rarely actually used that to download isos. The default option of http is almost always fast enough and the increased hassle of booting up my torrent client isn't worth it.

Sure, I use BitTorrent for Linux isos at work in a highly controlled environment, but for every one of me there would be hundreds pirating software at work, and tens accidentally killing their businesses bandwidth/quota by seeding too much.

Enterprise also expects certain kind of user awareness, or if not then certain amount of admin-set restrictions on the machine. Not these kind of big daddy policing decisions.

Is defender a ‘big daddy policing decision’?

You’re welcome to disable it via group policy if you like.

Defender working this way by default is a ‘big daddy policing decision’. The default should be to not do this, and people that want it should have to enable it via Group Policy.

Are you saying that insecure by default is a good idea?

Defender enabled by default would save billions annually, and not just from businesses but also grandma who’s entire photo collection just got ransomware’d.

That big daddy policing move was the single best action taken by Microsoft.

I'm not saying that Defender should be disabled by default. I'm saying that it shouldn't flag BitTorrent clients by default.

For sure, then set the seeding and upload rate limit. In general torrent is still the more reliable (decentralised) ways to share large files.

Yes but in practice people often use BitTorrent on their work computer to download music, movies and malware.

Hence the P for potentially.

PUA definitions are probably different enough to warrant segregation. Games on an enterprise system are probably equally PUA

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