Application Changed - What to do?

Dave Bird

I'm getting tons of messages from Bitdefender Firewall. The typical one says "The application <xxx.exe> has changed and is attempting to connect to the internet. One example app is WerFault.exe, which seems like should be benign. And, blocking it doesn't seem like a good thing to do in the general case. But there are lots of others, most of which I don't know, and certainly don't want to look up every one.

So, if I Allow the connection, it typically comes right back for many times, forcing me to click on it each time - a huge time waster.

My question is why is Bitdefender doing this unless the app is truly malicious? Second how to control it so that maybe when Bitdefender does give me a notice it can be blocked correctly?

Stefan I.

Hi Dave,

The prompts in question show up since you've enabled Alert Mode ( formerly known as Paranoid Mode). It leaves managing whether or not connections are allowed to you rather then doing it automatically.

To switch back to automatic management:

- open Bitdefender and click on Protection from the side-menu

- click on Setting under the Firewall column

- click on the Settings tab in the new UI that will show up

- disable Alert mode

Dave Bird

Done. Thank you.

So, going forward, can I expect that there will be no notifications from BitDefender for questionable connections? Or will only questionable connections be flagged?

Stefan I.

Hi Dave,

Notifications will be present so that you can keep a record of them.

What this changes is that you no longer have to decide whether to allow connections yourself and instead of a toast notification like you've seen so far you'll have a passive one that you can check at any point later:

Dave Bird

Hi Stefan:

Yes, I see the Notifications. But, no new notifications for questionable connection requests. I take it, that is the normal condition...

Thanks again.