Just letting you guys at Bitdefender know, I've experienced an issue that appears to be popping up in various other areas on this forum as well.
(Just generally searched the word Asus and saw a couple other mentions of BSODs that definitely had the similarity of having Asus motherboards mentioned. If installing the drivers from the Asus Motherboard DVD it auto-installs AI Suite III). I've also seen mention of AI Suite II causing trouble, but this isnt my issue.
When Asus AI Suite III is installed on Windows 8 and you attempt to either install Bitdefender 2013 (which includes an AV Scan) or after Bitdefender 2013 is installed and it attempts to AV scan (either automatically or manually), Windows 8 will BSOD.
I've tried this with and without AI Suite III installed. As soon as I remove AI Suite III the BSOD issues go away. If I install *ANY* portion of Asus AI Suite III the issues return.
I can also prevent the BSODs during scan by closing AI Suite III from the system tray, but this is far from an ideal solution as this prevents certain features of my motherboard from working properly.
System specifics:
i7-4770k (stock)
Asus z87 Deluxe/Dual
EVGA Geforce GTX 780
2x Samsung 840 Pro 256 gig SSDs (RAID 0)
4x Seagate 1TB HDDs (RAID 5)
32 gig of Mushkin Redline memory
Windows 8 Pro 64 bit with Media Center
I have opened a ticket:
201307051002953