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Microsoft, according to a project forum moderator, said it had updated Defender's definitions to now play nice with tor.exe after deciding"the submitted files do not meet our criteria for malware or potentially unwanted applications." The IT giant provided steps that Windows and Tor Browser users can take to refresh Defender, and ensure they can continue browsing in private.The Tor Project encouraged users to make sure Defender is up to date, and unquarantine the .
We still don't know why Defender was flagging the executable in the first place. Some on Reddit have speculated it has to do with Tor's proof-of-work code – a recently addedintended to fend off distributed denial of service attacks that might look like cryptocurrency-mining to Defender – or that it was aTor turns to proof-of-work puzzles to defend onion network from DDoS attacksThis, of course, isn't the first time Defender has labeled benign stuff as malicious.
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