Http Traffic Scanning -- Help Me Finish Solving

I've had BitDefender AV for almost four years now, and have never been able to enable the Scan Web (HTTP) traffic option. If I did, most websites would come up blank; some would come up slowly with strange-looking characters and formatting; and maybe 20% would work OK. In addition, some of my Firefox bookmark icons would change permanently to weird icons unrelated to the site (e.g. squiggles for Yahoo, a bed for Weather Underground).

Today, I finally discovered that if I turn off my Zone Alarm Pro (an older version, 6.1), everything works fine with HTTP traffic scanning enabled in BitDefender. It works fine with the Windows XP built-in firewall, too.

But I want to continue with my Zone Alarm. As long as I have HTTP scanning off in BitDefender, they "play very nicely" together. But with the increasing number and sophistication of malware, e.g., virulent Trojans that completley bypass the browser cache, I really want to enable HTTP scanning as well.

I have given high permission to all the BitDefender processes in ZA Pro. There MUST be some settings (probably in ZA) I could use which would permit me to continue with both programs, but enable HTTP Scanning in BitDefender.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

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hnyaji

try and install the latest ZA, to see of this can fix your problem!

I hope you had BD firewall which is very good!

ykcirn

Thanks for the suggestion. But I would really like to stay with the version of Zone Alarm I have now. I've had problems with later versions.

I did notice one new aspect: The conflict doesn't occur when I visit a secure (https) website. But it occurs with almost every non-secure site. Does this provide a clue? Or does the BitDefender http scanner simply ignore encrypted http traffic?

hnyaji

if you want to stick to BD AV and need a free firewall, please change your firewall mate!

If you want to stick to ZA firewall, change your AV! :-)

Try to remove ZA and BD completely and reinstall them both again to see if this can solve the conflict.

USE

BD uninstaller 32 bit - http://bitdefender.com/uninstall

BD uninstaller 64 bit - http://bitdefender.com/uninstall64

Hemanth

ykcirn

Actually I solved the issue (with a little help on another forum ).

Turns out the conflict was with ZA's Privacy features. I don't really need them, so when I disable them BitDefender's HTTP Scanning works.

But unfortunately having HTTP Scanning enabled seems to interfere with streaming media. And I use streaming media a lot. So my remaining task is to see if there is some way to keep streaming content from being scanned -- perhaps by adding the players (e.g. Windows Media Player) as scan exceptions???