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    From RetroSwim@21:2/150 to All on Sat Apr 4 08:16:03 2026
    Hello fellow operators,

    My board has been offline for a week unbeknownst to me, and when I went to investigate, NET2BBS.exe had been quarantined by Defender.

    (For the uninitiated, NETFOSS+NET2BBS is a Telnet->Fossil toolchain to get DOS16 BBSes and Doors working on Win32)

    I'm running my board on Windows 10 x86 IoT Enterprise LTSC, version 21H2. AFAIK this still receives security updates, so it's very possible that a virus signature update for Defender is the root cause.

    This hasn't been a problem until now, so I wanna know if it's come up for anyone else?

    Cheers,
    RetroSwim

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)
  • From Exodus@21:1/144 to Retroswim on Sat Apr 4 12:26:44 2026
    My board has been offline for a week unbeknownst to me, and when I went to investigate, NET2BBS.exe had been quarantined by Defender.

    Set your \NETFOSS directory to NOT be scanned. Only way around it.

    ... I'm not Canadian although I tend to like their bacon.

    --- Renegade v1.40/DOS
    * Origin: The Titantic BBS Telnet - ttb.rgbbs.info (21:1/144)
  • From Retroswim@21:2/121 to Exodus on Sun Apr 5 02:41:28 2026
    Set your \NETFOSS directory to NOT be scanned. Only way around it.

    Yeah, I figured! lol

    Thank you for confirming I'm not crazy, though!

    Cheers,
    RetroSwim

    --- Ezycom V2.15g1 01FD0295
    * Origin: >> Pool's Open - The RetroSwim BBS (21:2/121)
  • From Exodus@21:1/144 to Retroswim on Sat Apr 4 15:06:58 2026
    Set your \NETFOSS directory to NOT be scanned. Only way around it.

    Yeah, I figured! lol

    Thank you for confirming I'm not crazy, though!


    Did it to me like 20 years ago ... so ya, I get it. :)

    ... It's not the principle, it's the money.

    --- Renegade v1.40/DOS
    * Origin: The Titantic BBS Telnet - ttb.rgbbs.info (21:1/144)
  • From Scuz@21:1/248 to RetroSwim on Sat Apr 4 16:56:13 2026
    My board has been offline for a week unbeknownst to me, and when I went
    to investigate, NET2BBS.exe had been quarantined by Defender.


    It may also flag NFU.EXE, and the other executables. I'm working on a new project on a new VM and it flagged them all. Just tell defender to skip them

    |15-|07S|08cuz(TX|04!|08)

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: |08He|04X|08eD|07 - Mystic - | h3x3d.com:1337 (21:1/248)
  • From Shurato@21:2/148 to RetroSwim on Sat Apr 4 16:03:00 2026

    Hello fellow operators,

    My board has been offline for a week unbeknownst to me, and when I went to investigate, NET2BBS.exe had been quarantined by Defender.

    (For the uninitiated, NETFOSS+NET2BBS is a Telnet->Fossil toolchain to get DOS16 BBSes and Doors working on Win32)

    I'm running my board on Windows 10 x86 IoT Enterprise LTSC, version 21H2. AFAIK this still receives security updates, so it's very possible that a virus signature update for Defender is the root cause.

    That's normal. Some older versions don't flag, but most of them do. It
    needs to be excluded. That's the first thing I do when I install a new A/V software...

    --
    Shurato, Sysop Shurato's Heavenly Sphere (ssh, telnet, pop3, ftp,nntp,
    ,wss) (Ports 22,23,110,21,119,999)


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
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    * Origin: Shurato's Heavenly Sphere telnet://shsbbs.net (21:2/148)