Vonteera

Does Bitdefender Antivirus 2016 protect against the new Vonteera virus that disables anti virus (via certificate violation)?

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/s/vonteera/

Hi Dynan,

Yes we have detection of Vonteera in our engines. Also Malwarebytes kind of exaggerated the importance of moving the certificates to untrusted. To quote one of my colleguages Bogdan Botezatu:

Fortunately, this blacklisting of vendor certificates is only partially effective. The technique only prevents new product installations or the execution of stand-alone removal tools that need administrator privileges. System drivers and services created by antivirus products that are already running would not be affected. The technique only prevents new product installations or the execution of stand-alone removal tools that need administrator privileges. System drivers and services created by antivirus products that are already running would not be affected.

Kind regards,

Bo Skeel

Bitdefender, Chief Evangelist