Bitdefender Bytes

HazardO · 21 Mar 2010 at 12:54

So the bitdefender team sent out a patch for their AV product on Saturday, which on Vista and windows 7 64bit versions marked all system dlls as infected with trojen.fakealert.5, and promptly quarantines them. And then quarantined itself.

If you have been bitten as badly as I was, you'll need to do a system restore.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100320/tc_pcworld/badbitdefenderupdateclobberswindowspcs

HazardO · 22 Mar 2010 at 10:53

Bidefender's response..

http://news.bitdefender.com/NW1431-en--Trojan.FakeAlert.5-Update-issue.html

HazardO · 25 Oct 2010 at 11:03

Bitdefender has struck again. Not a false positive attack this time, but BD2011 has been using my machine to distribute updates to other customers via P2P without any warning. I noticed my router seemed busy when I wasn't doing anything on the net, and netstat was reporting a bunch of connections from external hosts on port 8881.

If anyone has BD2011, I suggest you disable P2P updates immediately, or potentially face the wrath of your ISP.

http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=21924

Open BitDefender / Update / Settings and ensure the following "tick" boxes are UNTICKED:-

Enable update sharing (P2P)
Upload BitDefender files from this pc

Do this on each computer on the network.

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