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Unfortunately lots of stuff runs under there including, but not limited to:

GitHub for Windows and dozens of apps it installs in there F.lux Anything installed with ClickOnce Chrome GMVault Xamarin's Android Support Markdownpad SkyDrive Join.me

Assuming that everything in there is a virus is too much, I think.



I would think that .Net portable apps are likely also per user executables.. not to mention that there are usually at least one scripting environment even on windows cscript/jscript/vbscript/powershell for example, not to mention Java, Python, Ruby and/or node may be installed.


ClickOnce apps are as well. We get bit with this every day because our main desktop app is distributed through ClickOnce.




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