 I am going to eventually do a whole video on why antivirus, just the concept of it doesn't make any sense. But I'm going to give you some examples here on just how stupid antivirus is and how basically it's just guessing and it does a horrible job at it. And it's just there to make you feel better, but really it just runs in the background, makes your computer run worse. So I was recently out of Windows Machine and I'm going to, I've already recorded these videos. I'm going to do a little voice over here, but here we go. So here is a project of mine on GitHub or GitLab. It's my bin. It's just a bunch of random scripts and code that I've written. If I go into this one, which allows me to play some Nintendo games and I go into the bin folder, I have an exe file here, a play NES exe. When I go to download it, and this is something I wrote, it pops up here and says failed. It's a virus. And then Microsoft Security Essentials says, oh, this is a detective virus and it deletes it, right? Well, it's not. Let me copy that. It's a virus total, which is a website that will scan files for you against a whole bunch of antivirus software. Look, all these antivirus programs think it's fine. So why do these antivirus programs think it's fine? But Windows Essential doesn't think it's fine because they're just guessing and it guessed differently. Let's go back and look at the actual source code for this binary. Because again, I wrote this and I compiled it. If we go into the Win32 file and click on the main C file, all it does is call a PowerShell script from a URL. Well, maybe that PowerShell script, which I also wrote, is malicious. Let's grab its URL and have a look at it. Load it up in the web browser here and just look at the text of it. All it does, the first thing it does is it loads up a media player and tries to stream Mario Brothers music from a website as it's downloading on the files. What files are downloaded? I have a function here, basic download function from an example tutorial on how to download stuff with PowerShell. And I have two URLs in here that downloads. One from Dropbox, which is a zip file, which contains a Nintendo emulator, a very common one, F-C-E-X. So if we take that and I go to download it, the computer has no problem with it. So if that was the issue with my script, it should have an issue with the actual file that's being downloaded and apparently not. Let's go ahead and look at the other file, which is just a text file that has a long list of URLs to Nintendo ROMs so that you can download a Nintendo ROM and play it with that emulator we just downloaded. So yeah, that's not going to be the issue. It's just a text file with a long list of URLs. Let's look at this a little deeper. Here is that long list of URLs that are zip files. Let's just try to download one of those and see if there's an issue. And I'm going to tell you there is, but it's a different issue. It's Chrome trying to tell me that this program could be malicious. I'm assuming just because it's a zip file, I'm not really sure it's dangerous. I thought maybe it was because I just did HTTP, but I add the HTTPS and it still said that. If I run that through VirusTotal again, it's clean. It's a clean file called all these. It's not saying it's a virus. It's just saying that it may contain something. It just might contain something malicious. So Chrome is not letting me download it. I can go to my shell and type in Wget and download that same exact URL, even without the HTTPS, which could be an issue. But I did it with the HTTP and I downloaded it. Look, I'll open up here. It's telling me that this it doesn't recognize this emulator. Again, this is a very commonly used open source emulator. And it's telling me, oh, we don't know who it is. I click on the wrong file. It seems to run fine. There's nothing wrong with any of the files, any of the URLs, any of the links that I was trying to learn, but anti virus was having a hissy fit and Windows fake security where they oh, we don't recognize this. Oh, so Microsoft doesn't know who this is. So right away, we're going to assume that it's bad. Guys, anti virus, which really should be called anti malicious software. It doesn't make sense. And I will do a video going into depth on this, but don't don't fall for it. It doesn't matter what operating system run. The only thing you have to do is don't download malicious software. That's it. Have a great day.