wkwood

Intro - I am now running Bit Defender Anti-Virus Plus 2013, on a Dual Core Windows 7 System with 4 GB of Ram and a bit over 2 TB of Hard Drive. I hope we ALL realize that the Bit Defender Tech Staff are sadly tasked with cleaning up messes left by other software in addition to trying to get their own software to operate as…

This issue has been fixed in the 2014 edition. Nice of Bitdefender to tell us... I'm outta here. have fun folks..

I have various problems after installing Bitdefender for the first time. Within Bitdefender, I used the 'Help and Support' > Contact Support' wizard to get my problems resolved. I got a message to say that a file has been created on my desktop, which it has. So now what happens? Has the file been sent to BD? Do I need to…

Will Wood - Have you tried Comodo firewall with Bitdefender AV? I find they run great together. No, I just did a replacement on one of my systems and replaced it with CIS. Since this forum prohibits comparisons I won't go into any details about what I think thus far. I just can say that the firewall problem we've all seen…

Hello Will Wood,I use free CIS (AV/FW) for more than 2 months (since I uninstalled BD) and I can assure you (although I'm almost sure you know) that not only has not such an issue BUT it also can teach(show) to anyone how a PC works with its connections/permissions for any software, AV protection etc. leading a user to…

Well I put Comodo 6.2 on one of my machines and I can confirm that it doesn't have the firewall problem.

I have installed bit defender total security 2013.Everything works fine. but whenever I want to play age of empire II game online using game ranger platform. Game never start. I can open Age of empire II offline and I can play well. but I can't play Age of empire II online and everytimes I need to uninstall bitdefender…

Hello I recently purchased and installed BitDefender Anitvirus Plus 2013 on my laptop. I initiated a full system scan, and it has been scanning for 11 hours. It says it has scanned over 3 million files with 232 infected items and 4 million skipped items. this doesn't seem correct to me. how long should the full scan take?…

Here's a vid on howto. http://wikisend.com/download/194416/DisableBDFW.mp4

I've put a brief video together here: http://wikisend.com/download/194416/DisableBDFW.mp4 on disabling the firewall in BitDefender. Enjoy.

Thanks for the reply. I use Bitdefender Antivirus plus along side Comodo firewall so I'm good to go. I had checked with Tcpview and I had no such issues, but I know of someone using just the av who did have the reported issues. I've also seen a few posts on the forums from av users who are suffering these issues. However…

Glad to know that your issue have been fixed. . Its my pleasure if I can help anyone here to sort out the issue. Another issue with AI Suite III? Weird.

So, I gather from other threads that this issue is to do with the https scanner. Does this issue affect all BD users or is it hit and miss? Well, all I can say is that it appears to be in the firewall. If you read up a few posts what I have been doing is disabling the BD firewall and using Windows Firewall instead. After…

See Below.... One door of my brand new Ford, cannot be locked. You don't need locks, besides somebody will just come down the street and smash the window and grab your stuff. Most likely Gypsies. Manufacturer said, I have to wait a little because, at this time, they cannot fix it. You mean the Dealer or are you driving all…

PS: Please let us go to our soapbox and you do go for a vote to your Obama There's no reason to get insulting... ;-) The last great US President was Ron Dog Reagan! Everything since has just been ... Well Meh.. Have fun.

@ Will Wood You MUST understand that we are not all gurus like you and we don't want it too. Anyway, your infos are very important and valuable. I(we) appreciate this. It's at least crazy for a user to follow your suggestions in case he wants to be protected by BD or any other crap. BUT, when someone (simple user) gives…

Just letting you guys at Bitdefender know, I've experienced an issue that appears to be popping up in various other areas on this forum as well. (Just generally searched the word Asus and saw a couple other mentions of BSODs that definitely had the similarity of having Asus motherboards mentioned. If installing the drivers…

@ Will Wood Your sense of humor is unbelievable... @ BD users (not the "nuclear" ones). There are three very very simple ways (one at a time) to solve the "ghost traffic" BD issue. 1. Download and use TCPView by Sysinternals to manually close "FIN_WAIT2" connections. or 2. Install, clean and fine working Joshy's solution…

Just an update on the above Procedure. For Windows 8, go ahead and try the msconfig method to get into safe mode for editing the settings.xml file. MSFT is still nasty about the Safe Mode changes but for our purposes msconfig has worked on all but two of my windows 8 machines, so I guess I need to rebuild them? Anyway,…

I don't know if this is the right place for posting this problem, but I can't see a problem-related section on this forum. Please move this topic to its right place if necessary. So, I have an annoying problem with Bitdefender Internet Security 2013. When I turn on my computer, it takes a very very long time till the…

Hi, so i bought 3 licenses for a year. I'm planning to give these to a couple of friends who can't afford an antivirus themselves. The thing i'm wondering is, if i give them a bitdefender code, will they have the same login info and name etc. that i have setup? Or will they be able to change this/ create a new one for…

Hi Will Wood, The question remains. This (expired offer) Sphere 2013 license, can be applied to BDTS New Edition (also called 2014) or not? Has anyone tried it? As for my heart, no, there is no change at all. I'm still here cause I like to help people (i.e. BD victims ). Believe me, now, using another solution, I know much…

Okay, here it is. Enjoy. How to disable the BitDefender Firewall and Use the Windows Firewall or some other Firewall First, we have to get BitDefender to turn off the Firewall, permanently. Follow this set of instructions in order to turn it off and keep it off. This works for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. For Windows…

Okay, here's what I did to disable the firewall permanently. Turn on laptop mode, yeah I know, weird but it seems to be the only way to keep auto pilot from toggling back on at the moment. It's under Settings->General Settings tab. Flip the switch on for automatic laptop mode. Then from the main screen go from Auto Pilot…

Thought I'd share something with you on a prototype running on a Win7-X64 installation with BD2013 installed. In this prototype, I keep track of the socket state and give it an amount of time (In this case one minute) to transition out of FIN_WAIT_1, CLOSING or FIN_WAIT_2. If it doesn't, I'll terminate the socket but it's…

It's very nice to really know about something. But I think it's also useless if you have not something to propose. So, if your proposal is for BD staff to do something you are exactly like all these people who ask again and again (since 2009) for the same thing. So, you may also "twist your nipples" as they say in your…

...bla...bla...bla. If you didn't waste your time writing all those useless words, you would (probably) have noticed this: http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?sho...st&p=180985 And as I have said to you in the past, fortunately, we are not Americans. Take care!!! You so funny werby , I wish I could sit around all day…

I know merging keys can be an issue with promotions, but I'm not sure of upgrade issues? http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=176642 LOL, 2014 release will be out before the end of the year, install the 2013 release, upgrade. That's how it's been for me from IS, TS and Sphere ;-) Also Werby, I thought you were…

NOTE: For the above Joshy's solution to work, Visual C++ 2012[/b] (x86 by Microsoft) must be installed. Regards! Okay, Werby. It's been awhile but a few minor health problems have kept me away for awhile (that and a lot of business on the road). When I look at that little executable you recommend so highly, guess what?…

Looking at the add, who knows how long "limited" may be. Anyone who's interested should probably jump on this one, as it could end anytime? 48 hours, so it turns into a pumpkin before the 4th