Help Identify Very Suspicious Behavior

I have BitDefender Total Security 2010 installed on a Vista computer. Today I downloaded and installed Cheetah DVD burner from CNET because I wanted to try it out. Cheetah installed routinely, but when I clicked on it's desktop shortcut icon to run it for the first time, BitDefender opened and tried to reinstall itself. It then required a reboot and after rebooting. walked me through the initial setup procedure. Wot happened? Did BitDefender get hijacked? I did a deep scan and found no malware. Anyone else have a similar wierd experience like this with other applications? Any help is appreciated.

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Alex Stanciu

Hello Abby,

Can you tell us the download link for Cheetah DVD burner ? Also, have you tried to reinstall it to see if the same sittuation occurs ?

Thank you .

Abby

Hello Abby,

Can you tell us the download link for Cheetah DVD burner ? Also, have you tried to reinstall it to see if the same sittuation occurs ?

Thank you .

Thanks for responding, Alex. The link is http://download.cnet.com/Cheetah-DVD-Burne...4-10238561.html

Executing the newly installed Cheetah app immediately shut down BitDefender and started a reinstall as if I had executed BitDefender's install program. Then, while BitDefender was reinstalling, Cheetah popped up as it should. After rebooting and having to reconfigure BitDefender, everything seemed to work normally. Merely executing a new program shouldn't shut down BD. I scanned, tried to remove all the incidents of Cheetah in the registry and reinstalled a previous version of Cheetah I had in a zip file on my computer. Same thing happened which makes me think I am already infected. Any suggestions would be appreciated as it would take me many hours to reformat my computer. Thanks

Alex Stanciu

Hello Abby,

We would like you to go to the next link :http://kb.bitdefender.com/KB490 and run the Avis and the Gmer tools as described in the article . After you obtain these reports , you will need to upload them here then reply with the download links . My colleagues from the Virus Analysis team will analyze these files and we will contact you back with further instructions after the analysis is complete .

Thank you .