[solved] Bitdefender Corrupts Most Of My Exe-downloads

Hi.

I've just installed the trial of Bitdefender Antivirus 2013.

I come from a clean machine that was regularly scanned by AntiVir Free and Malwarebytes and including combofix.

But I got irritated by all those popups from the free version of Antivir. So I installed Bitdefender because I saw it got pretty good results from the latest AV-test from Germany.

Anyways..

I installed Bitdefender and continued as normal.

But the next few times I was downloading updates for my games (C.A.R.S Projekt, Dawn of Fantasy etc) in exe-format.. they all got corrupted.

Is this normal ? I did not experience those errors/corruptions with AntiVir.

Btw I have a Support Tool Log ready if requested.

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doedels

I have the same issue, downloads got corrupted so i replaced ram, drives, etc..

Removing Bitdefender solves my download issue.

This needs to be fixed, this software corrupts my downloads.

Download example, 310.70-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-international.exe (Latest NVidia drivers)

209 MB (220,192,352 bytes) Without Bitdefender

209 MB (220,195,272 bytes) With bitdefender

seems like bitdefender is poking around in the exe's and making a mess.

rootkit

Hello

Please tell me, do you have the On Access Scanner set to Aggressive?

Thank you!

ghling

Hello Christian

I have the same problem and I'm using the default settings. These problem does also occur on different filetypes, I'm experiencing it especially wiht ISO files. In addition, flash videos are getting corrupted (the video displays only a green screen and skips to the end), especially using chrome as browser.

The recent update made the problem with the videos occur a bit less, but didn't solved it. I've been in touch with the german support mainly about the video problem, but the only help by now is that they could reproduce the problem. I'm currently trying if the "disabled" bdtl.dll file (rename it in windows safe mode and manually updating only signatures) solves the problem, it at least does for the videos.

doedels

Same on my side, default settings, reinstalled many times but exe, iso get corrupt.

Also i had many crashes of the game Natural Selection 2 (and some other games) and noticed that crashed did not occur when Bitdefender was uninstalled.

Antivirus should prevent issues, but since the last few updates i'm having many issue's.

Many files got corrupted during downloading and made a big mess on my system. <img class= " />

Now i think of it, i'm using Steam and game crashes are probably caused by Bitdefender corrupting updates that download.

When i press the check file button in steam it finds Inconsistencies and re-downloads them.

I've replaced RAM, SSD, HDD PSU, Router, Modem.. only thing that solves my issue is uninstalling Bitdefender.

Please help..

Will post system specs later today

doedels

My system is a Intel I7 3770K, 16GB RAM , Z77A-GD65 Mobo.

Went ahead and tested some trial version of other antivirus products and they seem to work just fine, no curruptions.

Something is not right with my Bitdefender installation, have it uninstalled now and all runs good.

egzo

I face the same corrupted downloads issue. I'm pretty sure it's thx to great traffic scan. Once again I have to put bdtl.dll into trash. :[

bobossoliman

same problem here, all my downloads are corrupted since i installed BD2013. any patch!!!

techhead51

After reading these post I am glad to see I am not alone but kind of mad this is an issue for the 2013 edition.

My issue is any thing not standard like an executable file will crash on attempt to install.

I get some free software and games from Give away of the day and there other sight game give away.

But as soon as I installed Bitdefender 2013 I can not install any thing from those sights.

I can down load and extract the files contained in the zip files, but that's it.

Re-downloading the files to a different folder or drive has no effect, as well as a diffident install path.

I have a steam account and so far nothing has effected that as of yet.

The worst part is I just put this on 3 computes yesterday December 22 2012.

The most curious thing though is that I never logged in to the cloud through the program when I installed it on 1 PC and I have not had any issues on that machine.

I have used McAfee in the past, not as good a product but not the problems either.

looking for a refund then some thing else less unstable