GtM

So, the solution is to disable either the antivirus, or an important security feature of the operating system. And, of course, the third solution would be to ditch both the antivirus and the operating system. Really? The Bitdefender guys must be Mac/Linux secret agents . BTW, in case you want to expose yourself with less…

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/astlog.html And I did reboot, seems like a requirement for most of the settings modifications I need from BitDefender.

I didn't try it. Practically they ask you to almost uninstall their suite, so it should work. Until I have more time on my hand, I'm stuck to not being able to use several Nirsoft apps. Other Bitdefender parts I had to disable: * the hosts file protection (there is an option in the settings), because being a web developer…

Thank you!

Yeah, disabling Antimalware Scan Service does not disable " Bitdefender AMSI Provider" even after restarting the computer. If I keep disabling modules, I might as well uninstall the whole suite . Did you solve this?