Problem - Thunderbird Gmail Norton

[nzoomed]

one of my biggest annoyances is AV software that removes all my password recovery tools from my flash drive - I constantly have to remember to disable the AV before using it...  In fact that's when I knew Microsoft Defender was getting quite good, when it started doing that...

Yeah I try and avoid using my flash drives as much as possible these days.
I miss the days when the earlier drives had a write protect switch on many models, was quite a handy feature.
Im quite surprised how well microsoft got it with windows defender, its probably the single best move that Microsoft made in the security space.
Whats more annoying is trying to get around all the loopholes when trying to download from Nirsoft because most broswers are blocking these downloads nowdays.