Scans Should ask to put the same passwords for all of the password protected files

Rock.87

Bitdefender Scans Should ask to put the same passwords for all of the password protected files, if the user need to scan password protected files at the same time of scanning & have the same password for em he should be able to do so, to ve a piece of mind. currently bitdefender is missing on that feature.

Why skip scanning archives when the 'scan archives' feature is specifically configured to do so? Why wait for malware to potentially attack from within these files? It's highly probable that an attack could occur when unlocking and accessing suspected malicious archived files, especially if Bitdefender's defenses are compromised due to the absence of an internet connection. Moreover, leaving these archives unscanned compromises the completeness of any system scan, especially during a thorough, time-consuming full system scan.

Petersl

Hi,

I second this request +1, when I run a systemscan it always skips the password protected archive files and never ask for any password.

Having the ability to maybe set in the scanner settings a few passwords that when bitdefender is scanning a password protected file it will try the passwords you have set so it can scan the file. If the password for the file is not set in the scanner settings it will then just skip the file.

Alexandru_BD

Hello,

That notification indicates that the files are either protected with a password or by some form of encryption. Password-protected files belong in most cases to legitimate software. They are protected with a randomly generated password by their developers to avoid reverse engineering for malicious purposes. This is not a password that you would set. Most commonly, these are:

• Files that belong to another security solution.

• Files that belong to the operating system.

The password-protected archives require a password so that they can be opened and checked for malware. This notification appears because Bitdefender (or any other security solution) is unable to unpack the contents of such items and scan them. To actually scan their content, these files would need to either be extracted or otherwise decrypted.

When the notification pops up, you can:

• Type the password in the corresponding field so that Bitdefender can scan it (obviously if you know the password, if this is an item that was previously encrypted by you).

• Skip the object from that particular scan.

• Skip all password-protected items without scanning them.

Regardless of this, should the contents of the password-protected files be extracted, malware cannot attack from there because Bitdefender’s real-time protection would automatically scan them to keep your computer protected. If you want to scan this type of file you’ll have to contact the product manufacturer to provide you with more details on those files.
Bitdefender's recommendation is to ignore password-protected archives as they are not infected and are not a threat to your system.

I hope this brings more clarity regarding password protected files.

Regards,

Alex