flagged, past tense:

https://forum.torproject.org/t/torbrowser-12-5-6-no-longer-f...

"With the latest signature database (1.397.1910.0), tor.exe is no longer considered a trojan by Windows Defender."

Just because the car eventually rolled off the pedestrian, doesn't mean there's no news story.

Reportedly, mass removal of Tor Browser happened, and damage is done: a lot of privacy/security stuff disabled, couldn't be used, some won't be reinstalled, there's extra vulnerability at reinstallation time, etc.

And the demonstration that Microsoft can easily do this is of interest to people tho don't want that kind of thing to happen, as well as to people who would like that capability.

Also, this is Microsoft actively removing a competing Web browser (after long ago being put on notice about sneakiness around competing browsers specifically).

I love outrage as much as the next edgelord but a) you can turn off Windows Defender if you don’t like it, b) false positives are a fact of any antivirus program, and c) Microsoft corrected it faster than you could even post. You are failing to make it seem like Microsoft acted in bad faith here. Comparing this to running cars over people is hyperbolic.

I thought I removed it but it came back. How do you remove it.. asking for a friend

With Group Policies.

Great unless you happen to be using a Home edition of Windows, which doesn't have the Group Policy Editor.