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I was running a crawler the other day on one of my PCs from a console app. Then suddenly the antivirus discovers that a page is infected, terminates the connection and wrecks havoc to the app which stays hung there for hours and I'm unable to terminate or even kill it from Task Manager. I had to restart the PC for the task to be forcefully killed. Thanks but no thanks. I uninstalled the damn thing the next day. How the fuck did antivirus software became too intrusive?


What's the difference between your crawler and the botnet client as far as the AV concerned? You're the outlier among the AV customer segment.




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