I recently updated Bit Defender and the first scan has tagged over 500 files as being infected. It has deleted most and cleaned the rest. I stopped the scan at the midpoint because I don't believe the results. All of the files are listed as being infected with Gen:Trogjan.Heur.Rootkit.*** (where *** is a unique extension for each file infected). I have been out of town and have not run my computer for two weeks. The scan prior to my being away for two weeks did not report any infections. Thus, the only thing that has changed has been the Bit Defender update. I know from the old forums that Bit Defender has had issues with false positives regarding this type of malware before.
Please advise. Will I now have to manually restore all 500+ files? And how do I stop Bit Defender from deleting the files it couldn't get to when I reboot?
P.S. I sent a supposedly infected file (a .dll) via the False Positive sample submission (but obviously didn't send all 500+ of them).
