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Dr. Web Antivirus goes rogue + installation issues #979

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Hi there! I'm an user from Russia and i dont know if you heard about Dr. Web antivirus, but here it's pretty popular and i paid for somewhat 3 year premium.

One day i decide to customize my windows 11 and windhawk pops up. I download the installer without hesitation, after which i'm warmly greeted with not being able to download the program online (i had nearly perfect internet), then i download the offline installer. Somehow i cannot download the program anywhere on my C disc, program just decides that admin permission is not enough and just refuses to download, i switched to my secondary hard drive, but that alone was still not enough, the computer was not feeling well with the download of whole version, so i sticked with the portable one.
Finaly i installed this masterpiece and then my Dr. Web antivirus blocked the windhawk.exe and VSCodium.exe files. I made an exception to the whole folder, both .exe files and reinstalled the program. Guess what happend? Antivirus deleted everything again! Moving on after nearly 4 hours i got this abomination to work, installed 2 mods, and started trying to work, when i experienced the most antivirus alerts in my entire life. The alerts were all about "unathorised code running" and that the antivirus blocked it. It was fine, the program itself was doing great, just a bit annoying.
Then i started to openning some of my programs on my pc and boy was i terrified. The thing that was supposed to protect me, turned against me (the antivirus i'm talking about). Poor thing started placing many of my opened programs executable files (the .exe type files) into quarantine, which essentially made every program i started delete itself. I was devistated. That meant i had to manually check every deleted .exe and restore it, but with a twist: see Dr. Web really does not like to restore programs without a bit of a reboot in between. So i think you understand the whole situation i went through.
Fortunately i recovered all of my programs and i will not download this bs until at least it starts checking what apps, processes to inject for certain mods.

Thank you for reading this crap and i hope you do something ^-^
(Also sorry for my bad english, as i already said: i'm Russian)

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