Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded?

Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote at 15:50 this Thursday (GMT):

On Thu, 3/27/2025 8:36 AM, CrudeSausage wrote:
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At the very least, Microsoft should have understood that both ArmouryCrate
(used by most ASUS hardware) and Samsung Magician (used by most Samsung SSDs)
are legitimate pieces of software and whitelisted them. The fact that even in
those cases it feels the need to "detect" whether they are good or bad is troubling.
For now, I feel better disabling the setting.

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Microsoft wants to remove *all* third party drivers. That's
the long term intent. The "Vulnerable Driver Blocklist" is an
interim solution, until they are in control of all the drivers.
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They want to own all of Ring 0.
And you can have a portion of Ring 3 :-)
>
   Paul

While that would probably be bad, it woud at least prevent some god
awful anticheats and drm "solutions" from working. Maybe.
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