I've been made aware of a post from someone representing Rufus who says I'm very confused about this post. I've reported that Windows Defender went bananas after I installed Rufus on a Windows 11 device. It immediately popped up warnings about hacktools and trojans being installed while it was installing. I wish I had a record of it but I nuked everything after the alerts.
https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/issues/3064
BrianKrebs
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2026-10-24 03:09:01 UTC
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