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Do you have YTDVideoDownload?

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    Yesterday, my Windows 10 laptop posted an alert for a potentially unwanted application - YTDVideoDownload. Interestingly, it's the first alert I've had in years on any of my machines. The only software I installed recently on the windows 10 machine is a Discord client. This morning, my Windows 11 laptop is reporting that it has the same application. The only thing that these two machines have in common is yesterday they both updated with the latest from Microsoft, and I run opera on both of them. Nothing is in the installed s/w list, and I haven't added any plugins to the browsers, so I wonder how it just snuck in.

    Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

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      Yesterday, my Windows 10 laptop posted an alert for a potentially unwanted application - YTDVideoDownload. Interestingly, it's the first alert I've had in years on any of my machines. The only software I installed recently on the windows 10 machine is a Discord client. This morning, my Windows 11 laptop is reporting that it has the same application. The only thing that these two machines have in common is yesterday they both updated with the latest from Microsoft, and I run opera on both of them. Nothing is in the installed s/w list, and I haven't added any plugins to the browsers, so I wonder how it just snuck in.

      Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

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      milo xml
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      Quick search pulls up YouTube Downloader. Maybe it's a plugin in Opera?

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        Yesterday, my Windows 10 laptop posted an alert for a potentially unwanted application - YTDVideoDownload. Interestingly, it's the first alert I've had in years on any of my machines. The only software I installed recently on the windows 10 machine is a Discord client. This morning, my Windows 11 laptop is reporting that it has the same application. The only thing that these two machines have in common is yesterday they both updated with the latest from Microsoft, and I run opera on both of them. Nothing is in the installed s/w list, and I haven't added any plugins to the browsers, so I wonder how it just snuck in.

        Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

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        You can rest assured MS or one of the big-wigs will never ship with something like that. There's too much money thrown around in the circle jerk that is big tech.

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          You can rest assured MS or one of the big-wigs will never ship with something like that. There's too much money thrown around in the circle jerk that is big tech.

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          charlieg
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          Really? like they accidently pushed out HP sw? I'm missing your sarcasm aren't i? :)

          Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

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            Quick search pulls up YouTube Downloader. Maybe it's a plugin in Opera?

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            well I've been digging deep there. Like in my starting post, the only thing I have installed is the discus client. Opera has not updated in a week (unless it got sucked in with the Windows update). looking for other people that might have had this pop up.

            Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

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              Really? like they accidently pushed out HP sw? I'm missing your sarcasm aren't i? :)

              Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

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              Well, it wasn't intended to be sarcastic... but then again you never know. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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                Yesterday, my Windows 10 laptop posted an alert for a potentially unwanted application - YTDVideoDownload. Interestingly, it's the first alert I've had in years on any of my machines. The only software I installed recently on the windows 10 machine is a Discord client. This morning, my Windows 11 laptop is reporting that it has the same application. The only thing that these two machines have in common is yesterday they both updated with the latest from Microsoft, and I run opera on both of them. Nothing is in the installed s/w list, and I haven't added any plugins to the browsers, so I wonder how it just snuck in.

                Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

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                Oh Microsoft, please never change. So on my Windows 11 laptop with this rogue chunk of code, I kicked off a full Windows Defender scan.... 17 hours ago. It appears to have hung. No cpu being consumed, etc. I think I'll download Malwarebytes, but really MS. You insist that weekly updates are necessary for security and your scanner hangs. Hmmm

                Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

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                  Yesterday, my Windows 10 laptop posted an alert for a potentially unwanted application - YTDVideoDownload. Interestingly, it's the first alert I've had in years on any of my machines. The only software I installed recently on the windows 10 machine is a Discord client. This morning, my Windows 11 laptop is reporting that it has the same application. The only thing that these two machines have in common is yesterday they both updated with the latest from Microsoft, and I run opera on both of them. Nothing is in the installed s/w list, and I haven't added any plugins to the browsers, so I wonder how it just snuck in.

                  Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

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                  In conclusion to my original post, this appears to be a false positive. I found it on two other machines (that were not complaining). I have other things to worry about.

                  Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

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