modern hobbyist software has way too big of a minefield anymore.
wanted to rip a music track out of Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, a task for which there are already mod tools, since the respective archive and audio formats are known since a few games ago. unfortunately, one of the necessary tools flags my antimalware so badly that even 7-Zip starts freaking out as soon as it lays eyes on the thing, in addition to my browser refusing to follow the link and Windows throwing SmartScreen errors.
maybe it did have a bitcoin-mining trojan stuffed in it, maybe it didn't. unfortunately no program is left on my computer that'll litigate it because the kangaroo court of Windows Defender, Firefox, and 7-Zip have already declared it Guilty and removed it, and I'm powerless to get it to try again short of using another computer running a different OS.
which is bullshit because the program is for Windows anyway and I'd have to basically smuggle the EXE file across.
TO MY OWN COMPUTER.
also remembering an install guide i like to follow that involves writing up a small batch file to automate some system setting changes (it's a batch file, open source by its nature), except that as of a few years ago, that batch file will get flagged as a Severe System Threat as soon as you try to save it from notepad.
as much as I could be sure that this program is relatively trustworthy, and that it's a false positive, i can't very well believe that it *isn't*, plus basically every program on my computer that tries to touch the file in any way is screaming bloody murder about it and not letting me get a word in edgewise.
and so the endgame is that i did not rip a music track from LAD:IW and apparently neither has anybody else, and it'll be stuck in my head all day now.