Description
Hello there I used privacy sexy to disable updates & other bloat. It worked for a long time my win10 device did not update & everything was good then one day starting up my pc somehow an update got through & updated on reboot. Now I cannot use privacy sexy to fix what's been undone.
I get
Error
It seems your antivirus software might have removed the script. Don't worry privacy.sexy is secure, transparenr, & open source, but the scripts might still be mistakenly flagged by antivirus software.
To address this you can
1. Open Virus & threat protection via the start menu.
2. Open manage settings under virus & threat protection settings
3. Open add or remove exclusions under add & remove exclusions.
4. Add directory exclusion for C:\users\name\appdata\roaming\privacysexy\run
It's important to re-enable your anti-virus protection after resolving the issue for your security, for more guidance refer to your antivirus documentation.
If the problem presist run a different script selection to check if the problem is script specific
consider reporting a false positive to your antivirus provider
review logs
reach out to community for assistance
Technical Details: [FileReadbackVerificationError] UNKNOWN: unknown error, open c:\users\name\appdata\roaming\privacy.sexy\runs\2026-05-04-17-18-23-privacy-script
How can the bug be recreated?
Not sure how you would create this I was on win 10 ran privacy sexy it worked for many months then all of a sudden it updated when I booted it up one morning. Now stuck on win 11 windows security does not open neither does virus & threat protection.
I just get windows cannot find ''. Make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again.
I do have smartscreen disabled by regedit following the steps using regedit.
Open regedit go to.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
In the right panel locate the EnableSmartScreen filter value. If the value is not present, you will need to create it manually.
To create a new value, right-click the System key and select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value.
Rename the value as EnableSmartScreen.
Next, right-click the EnableSmartScreen value and select Modify.
Type 0 in the Value data field and click OK to save the changes.
Restart PC.
I do still have smartscreen disabled I did notice in regedit that in there is also a ab ShellSmartScreenLevel value data: warn not sure if this has to be changed or not didn't do so in the past.
Operating system
Windows 10 Home 22H2 19045:6456
Script file
No response
Screenshots
No response
Additional information
Not sure whats happening or how to get around it without reinstalling windows defender or doing a system restore.
Description
Hello there I used privacy sexy to disable updates & other bloat. It worked for a long time my win10 device did not update & everything was good then one day starting up my pc somehow an update got through & updated on reboot. Now I cannot use privacy sexy to fix what's been undone.
I get
Error
How can the bug be recreated?
Not sure how you would create this I was on win 10 ran privacy sexy it worked for many months then all of a sudden it updated when I booted it up one morning. Now stuck on win 11 windows security does not open neither does virus & threat protection.
I just get windows cannot find ''. Make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again.
I do have smartscreen disabled by regedit following the steps using regedit.
Open regedit go to.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\SystemIn the right panel locate the EnableSmartScreen filter value. If the value is not present, you will need to create it manually.
To create a new value, right-click the System key and select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value.
Rename the value as EnableSmartScreen.
Next, right-click the EnableSmartScreen value and select Modify.
Type 0 in the Value data field and click OK to save the changes.
Restart PC.
I do still have smartscreen disabled I did notice in regedit that in there is also a ab ShellSmartScreenLevel value data: warn not sure if this has to be changed or not didn't do so in the past.
Operating system
Windows 10 Home 22H2 19045:6456
Script file
No response
Screenshots
No response
Additional information
Not sure whats happening or how to get around it without reinstalling windows defender or doing a system restore.