I once tried wsl on my work machine instead of having to deal with cygwin or msys2. Unfortunately the virus scanner didn't like that a whole lot and my account was locked. Man do I love enterprise problems on top of normal problems.

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 42 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That must have been an incredibly shitty virus scanner if it complains about Windows features.

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably McAfee or Norton, which are pretty much viruses themselves.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Windows is the real virus.

[–] 520@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Enterprise security software tends to err much more on the side of caution.

There are plenty of Windows features who's usage will flag because they are also favourite tactics by actual threats, such as Powershell one liners. Bonus if it's in Base64.

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Powershell one liners are uglier than the worst winner of Obfuscated Perl Contest. Super cringe....

[–] 520@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

That I would agree... But they're excellent for getting fileless reverse shell on a victim's machine

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My company's shut off my Internet for using visual studio. Sometimes they're just too aggressive

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you need visual studio for work, you’ll also need the internet. So you’re chilling out the rest of the day? Congrats.

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Lmao no I had to use my phone to reach out to the helpdesk

[–] hunter2@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Agreed. It was Sophos.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The VPN client I'm using doesn't play properly with wsl, so I can often randomly not use internal services, because there's no route available. Unfortunately, that includes our k8s cluster, so I have to use a different kubectl outside of wsl to work with it. Awesome.

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like your company could get you another vpn right? Like that seems really annoying to have to deal with

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure, they could. But they won't. Simply because those who could enact the changes are working from the offices, and those don't have these problems.

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

That's a real bummer, always sucks when higher ups just don't get why something is a problem