Bitdefender Update Fails-virus Takes Over
Bitdefender 2009 failed to update virus definitions. Has not updated since Dec 14. Some type of malware virus has taken over. It will highjack all searches in IE, Firefox and Opera. It disabled System Restore. Spybot is disabled and will not run. It will seem like it is starting, but never loads. Cannot manually update Bitdefender either. It will not let you browse to any virus, spyware or other software sites of this type. I am running Bitdefender on 2 other computers (laptops) and they have been updating noramally and I can navigate to any website on them.
I read elsewhere in these forums to ping Bitdefender update site and run nslookup and tracert on this site. The results are below.
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
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C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>ping upgrade.bitdefender.com
Pinging localhost [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>nslookup upgrade.bitdefender.com
Server: dslrouter
Address: 192.168.1.254
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: a1937.g.akamai.net
Addresses: 96.6.123.40, 96.6.123.88
Aliases: upgrade.bitdefender.com, upgrade.bitdefender.com.edgesuite.net
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>tracert upgrade.bitdefender.com
Tracing route to localhost [127.0.0.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms localhost [127.0.0.1]
Trace complete.
CAN ANYONE GIVE ME A SUGGESTION TO TRY? THANK YOU>