dozens of BDExtensionCommunication processes eating 99% cpu

Two days ago, Bitdefender started spawning dozens of BDExtensionCommunication processes, which consumed 99% of the CPU. (I'm presuming there was an update). I killed them, and the cpu returned to normal. But they came back. A reboot did no good. A removal and reinstall did no good. Disabling Bitdefender did no good. So I've had to delete the application to make my Mac usable. Which is clearly not a good solution. Does anyone have any ideas?

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Alexandru_BD

Hi @KJSmith, can you tell us what Bitdefender version are you running and since when has this behavior been occurring?

@dvsls what do you think about this?

Gjoksi

Hello.
I promoted you to Level 2.
You can now post screenshot(s) of the issue, so we can better understand it.
Regards.

KJSmith

I've deleted the application (since it kills the machine).
My subscription is for 'Bitdefender Total Security,' and I'm assuming that reinstalling from BitDefender Central gets the latest version.
The Mac is a 2019 Intel MacBook Pro (16GB) running the latest OS (26.2)
I'll reinstall again later tonight when I don't need it to work.