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How to stop scanning attached devices
When installing I mistakenly allowed Bit Defender to scan external devices which only contain Clones of the main device (Carbon Copy Cloner) and Time Machine backups. Old data on these drives are not a threat and it is finding tons of stuff in static archives going back years. How can I exclude these devices so that I do…
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https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/25936/ Syntax errors
The support solution has errors in the commands listed in the solution: Step 3: (space before FileProtect.keytext) sudo kextload /Library/Extensions/ FileProtect.kext/ Step 4: (syntax error I cannot discern) sudo sqlite3 /var/db/SystemPolicyConfiguration/KextPolicy “select * from kext_policy” Password: Error: near…
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Removing unresolved threat warnings
As I mention in an earlier post, Catalina uses a different path structure for attached devices. Consequently backups were scanned despite instructing them to be skipped. After ~48 hours I canceled the system scan but am now left with a 183 unresolved threats. My plan was to add the unresolved threats to Exceptions and then…
