Bit Defender 64 bit goes ballistic

It looks as though a false alarm is quarantining everything in sight including Bit Defender files Bit Defender Forums

 

WHOW - I just checked out their forum and this is HUGE man, it's eating the PCs alive, BitDefender is going to have a problem with the fallout from this one.

 

Um......glad I don't have Bitdefender installed

 

http://www.bullguard.com/support/system-status.aspx

Looks like BullGuard users are getting the same problems as BitDefender users

 

wow all the vendor who uses bits def files, man i hate to be them

 

So: F-Secure, G-Data, Bull Guard, and Bit Defender user's are going to go through many Fp's

 

http://www.bitdefender.com/site/KnowledgeBase/consumer/#638

 

3. We're assuming you have access to another pc and that you realize that what's happened is a result of BitDefender.

 

Another good reason to make image backups.

 

Also another good reason to not use apps that automatically delete/quarantine files without asking first.

It's also another good reason to quit running as admin and ditch the resource hogs.

 

Although this one is a bigger problem than what I've seen in the past, but I have seen similar things happen with other popular avs too, so for that reason, this won't change my mind about their product, which I've liked for years, minus the bugs and poor support channel

Let's hope they can sort it quickly, I'm sure the person involed in creating the problem is gonna get slated by his employers, as things like this are never good especially for software that is supposed to be protecting your files.

I'm sure they will get over it though! Just a dodgy update, I've seen them before and I will see the again (who next?) lol

 

I've gotten a few Twitter messages saying there is supposed to be a patch in 45 minutes.

Krebs did a piece on it: http://www.krebsonsecurity.com/2010/03/bad-bitdefender-antivirus-update-hobbles-windows-pcs/

 

This makes the acrimony of the Avast! update debacle,and the earlier Comodo mess-up,seem mild.

What a thread they have going!!.
I didn't thank there were that many Bit-Defenders users in the world!
Let alone,64 bit users!

 

BitDefender is lucky that this didn't happen the day AV-Comparatives froze their signatures for the Febraury test
BitDefender should do more testing before releasing the signatures for updating

 

Geez! This must be sabotage.

Any news about G Data/F-Secure?

 

F-Secure did not issue the problematic update so their users should be fine. Speaking of Client Security and Antivirus for Workstations.

 

Thanks for the info Sputnik.

Really bad news for Bitdefender users.

 

No problems here with Gdata (antivirus 2010) on a 64 bit computer

 

G-Data and F-Secure usually only provide updates on Saturday morning, probably that saved them. I'm not exactly sure if they do their own fp tests before issuing updates, I know F-Secure did so when they used AVP (Kaspersky) engine.

 

LOLZ, boy oh boy, I´m glad that I´m not using any realtime scanner.

 

Hi everyone,

We are very sorry for the problems people may have had in regards to this issue.

We have been providing information to our users via support articles that are updated regularly as we implement solutions:

Home users will find solutions here: www.bitdefender.com/site/KnowledgeBase/consumer/#638

BitDefender Business Client users will find solutions here: www.bitdefender.com/site/KnowledgeBase/consumer/#643

BitDefender Security for File Servers users will find solutions here: www.bitdefender.com/site/KnowledgeBase/consumer/#642

If anyone has further problems please let me know here and I will help you to deal with them.

Best,

Matt Hicks
BitDefender

 

Thank God I am not the only one with this thing. I did have this problem 4 days ago. I didnt have the guts to write her beacuse I thought it might be something wrong with my pc.

One day I turned on my computer, bitdefender went NUTS!! Popping up saying I hade tons of trojans fakealert 5 something. I tried system restore and then to reinstall Bitdefender. Same problem.

At this point I realized that it was a problem with BD. But now i had problems with acessing systemrestore. So I had to reinstall my whole W7 .

 

uuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh what a pain .
that is really awful .i do not remember BD doing such mass in sometimes now

 

Frack man.. I can just imagine some corp customers having hundreds of comps hosed within hours. Lucky them it was only W7 x64 and not XP

 

64bit computers are the norm right now.