Bitdefender's Advanced Threat Defense Keeps Blocking "whoami.exe". What To Do?

Bitdefender's Advanced Threat Defense keeps blocking "whoami.exe" and is doing this every 4 minutes throughout today. The software states that whoami.exe is blocked and disinfection successful but I keep getting this every 4 minutes.

Please advise. Thanks.

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  • Hello @BPTacoDefender,

    Based on your description of the situation encountered, I would recommend contacting the Technical Support Teams, as more information might be required to troubleshoot this. You can get in touch with our engineers by choosing one of the contact methods available here:

    https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/help/

    I don't think we will be able to resolve this on the forum, because we don't know exactly why the notification behaves this way and what whoami.exe is doing. The engineers may also request logs from the device for accurate diagnosis.

    Regards

  • Flexx
    Flexx Defender of the month mod

    Additionally, whoami seems to be a legitimate microsoft windows file.

    More information can be found in below stated link

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/whoami

    Regards

    OMEN Laptop 15-en1037AX (Bitdefender Total Security) & Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (Bitdefender Mobile Security)

  • I just had the same file blocked by Bitdefender. Here are the details:

    The notification says:

    Application whoami.exe has been detected as potentially malicious and was blocked.

    Application path: C:\Windows\System32\whoami.exe

    Command line parameters: whoami

    Detection ID: SuspiciousBehavior.7E4BD9AB7C59C8B

    The file was blocked while I was installing Wordpress on a local server. The local server uses XAMPP.