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.
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.
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.
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.
That must have been an incredibly shitty virus scanner if it complains about Windows features.
Agreed. It was Sophos.
My company’s shut off my Internet for using visual studio. Sometimes they’re just too aggressive
If you need visual studio for work, you’ll also need the internet. So you’re chilling out the rest of the day? Congrats.
Lmao no I had to use my phone to reach out to the helpdesk
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.
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.
I feel like your company could get you another vpn right? Like that seems really annoying to have to deal with
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.