For TWENTY years, across a variety of devices, including the last three Microsoft surface devices, my machine will occasionally become uncontrollable, and after waiting one minute for task manager to eventually appear, it will show search indexer running.
I know other people do not have this issue, but I suspect the cause is me having lots of very small files on certain drives.
It is pretty crazy that it's still the same as always. Personally I set the windows indexer to only index the start menu, and use Everything for all my other searches since it's instant.
Oh, I used this and the performance and deduplication surprised me greatly in ReFS. I was using it as a place to store backups of my systems. The on disk vs the file size was so great that I had to rethink my offsite storage solutions. There was a recent article on here from a researcher at Microsoft on file size and deduplication.
Deduplication is awesome, it's really unfortunate how dangerous it is with things available on Linux. I've had ZFS corrupt itself twice and not after disabling it, on the same hardware. And btrfs died on me once - I'm not 100% sure it's exactly due to that, but there's a limit how much I'm willing to spend time copying terabytes.
So, I wonder. Can I persist my malware(red team) in a dev drive? Maybe that's the first thing a win11 infection routine should do, set up a dev drive via powershell and avoid scanning.
Nah, defender is a PITA. There is theory and there is reality. Theoretically you can load a vuln driver and load a rootkit or just disable defender but both those things are highly detectable in mature environments. But a developer or jetbrains.exe setting up a nice dev drive is too noisy for a detection and too burdensome on your devs to block it outright.
For TWENTY years, across a variety of devices, including the last three Microsoft surface devices, my machine will occasionally become uncontrollable, and after waiting one minute for task manager to eventually appear, it will show search indexer running.
I know other people do not have this issue, but I suspect the cause is me having lots of very small files on certain drives.