kirk837

Well, I think BitDefender has been hacked. I hope the 404's imply that they've taken themselves off line while they fix things, although that's a dumb way to announce being offline for maintainance. Maybe they're dead. They sure aren't responsive. "BD is dead. Long live ... what?"

Is it fixed? Just now, instead of trying to update with a 20-27MB download (depending on whether last week's weekly was installed), the update was about 0.5MB, and included some patch files. It was successful, and is now 7.21716 -- a clear update, with an increase in the number or virus defs. Hope this does it for us all.…

It is now a full week since this server (?) problem started. Evidently a few users have been able to update, but this is not a merely intermittent problem -- I have tried many times to update and have always been blocked by timeouts and md5 errors. I was able to download and install the last weekly (signed 4 am, Oct 31).…