I tried installing W10Privacy earlier this week from https://www.w10privacy.de/english-home/ and I found Windows Defender coming up with a notification saying that it is malware and it then immediately deleting the executable.
You don't even indicate which download link you used, it was "earlier this week" so nobody can try and reproduce it, and you don't even say what it was detected as? Plus you linked to a site that has a whole article talking about them getting regularly flagged for false-positives due to the sensitive settings they're changing within Windows (see "Virus?" link).<p>Like what is it you expect to happen here? Plus why are you using this sketchy looking tool instead of one of the many scripts available[0] or Open Source tools[1] that do the same thing while making the source code readily readable?<p>I don't personally endorse any of this stuff, in fact I recommend against it. A lot of these scripts disable or remove security features and break functionality that has nothing to do with privacy. Plus users that use this stuff are self-selecting as the exact kind of users without the technical knowledge to know what they're doing, why, or how to undo it (or else they'd just make the changes "by hand"). Breaking Windows Update is a common symptom of this stuff (e.g. install -> rollback -> install -> rollback, loop), and they won't know how to fix it then just blame Microsoft.<p>I guess my point is: You try to get sketchy things, from sketchy sites, and it gets flagged thusly, it is working as intended. If you're here to complain that Microsoft pointed your gun away from your own foot, well too bad? Better luck next time, guess?<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/TemporalAgent7/awesome-windows-privacy#powershell-and-batch-scripts">https://github.com/TemporalAgent7/awesome-windows-privacy#po...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/TemporalAgent7/awesome-windows-privacy#oss-applications">https://github.com/TemporalAgent7/awesome-windows-privacy#os...</a>