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Trojan.agent.bcbi In A Zip File Email Attachment
I use Gmail to read emails from .y ISP's POP email account. Gmail detected a virus in an attachment to an email and refused to download the email. Thunderbird, which has Bitdefender antispam enabled for this POP account failed to flag the email. When I saved the .zip attachment to my hard drive, Bitdefender on-access…
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Is Rescue Mode Safe To Use?
It appears that this overwrites the boot sector of the hard drive, which makes me nervous. Does it change the partition table as well? Which partition does it boot from in the rescue mode? What if the computer freezes during the rescue mode scan? Will BD clean up after itself and restore the boot sector? What if I cannot…
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What Is The Latest Build For Bitdefender Total Security?
I purchased BTS 2013 recently. Despite all the updating, my build # is 16.35.0.1936 Is this the latest version (as of January 10, 2014)? I tried all the steps in http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=198885 but still end up with this version above. Aloke
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How Do I Test Id Bd Is Monitoring My Web Browsing?
I mostly use Firefox and IE11 and Chrome on occasionally. So far, I have not seen any evidence of BD protecting me from browsing to a safe or malicious (or infected) web sites. How do I verify that this part of BD is working? What should I see on the web pages or google search results? Is there a test page, preferably from…
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What Is The "new Bitdefender"?
How is the "New Bitdefender" different from Bitdefender Total Security? I purchased BDTS 2013 and updated it to build 17.24.0.1033. Do I have the "New Bitdefender"? Should I post my questions here or in the "Bitdefender 2013 Products" sub-forums? Aloke
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Does The "rescue Mode" Scanning Write Anything To The Hard Drive?
The Rescue Mode scanning restarts the PC into some form of Linux and runs a scan from there. Does that mean that Bitdefender changes the boot sector or partitioning of my hard drive? Either when I installed BD or when I select "Rescue Mode" in BD? Will that cause a conflict with newer BIOSes with UEFI and safeboot…
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Could Not Update Windows 8 Untill Turning Off Uefi And Safeboot In The Bios
I posted this in a different forum, but I guess the post belongs here. Please read the details here: http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=51682 and comment here or in the original forum.. Thanks. Aloke
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Can Bdts Schedule A Boot-time Scan? Or Do I Have To Use A Rescue Cd?
Can BDTS schedule a boot-time scan (like Avast can)? Or do I have to use the BD Rescue Disk? If so, how do I get the Rescue Disk w the latest definitions? Thanks. PS: Do I have to do a boot-time scan to detect and remove rootkits?
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Do I Have A Rootkit? Will Rescue Disk Find And Fix That?
I use BDTS on my desktop. The problem is on my laptop (that was not using BDTS at that time): I upgraded Win 8 to 8.1. After a restart (part of the upgrade process), the laptop would not boot into Windows. I had to repair my installation and reset the computer (losing all my files and setting it up as a new Windows 8…
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Why Is Bitdefender Issuing Certificate For Gmail?
I'm getting this from Thunderbird email client as a security exception: (see attached file) Is this normal? Why is BitDefender mucking around with my certificates? I thought that the AntiSpam feature was for POP3 email, not IMAP.
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Does Antispam Work For Imap Accounts In Thunderbird?
Does AntiSpam work for IMAP accounts in Thunderbird? Also, will this or some other Bitdefender Total Security module catch malaware if I visit Gmail, Yahoomail etc on their web sites?
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Safepay Produced A Bsod!
Safepay produced a blue-screen-of-death the forst time I tried it. I did not note down the error msg on the screen. The BSOD brought back bad memories from the past and I have have been apprehensive about using Safepay ever since. Anyone else experienced a BSOD using this?
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How Do I Open Specific Ports?
How do I open the following? 80 TCP 443 TCP 4172 TCP & UDP 32111 TCP 3389 TCP 9427 TCP
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How Do I Test All Modules Of Bitdefender Total Security?
I want to test all functionality od BD. I know I can create an EICAR text file to test the anti-virus module. How about firewall, antispam, antiphishing? Is there a EICAR-like web site that one could could visit to check out the protection against such events? That site could benignly try to spam me, try to install a test…
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Any Way To Temporarily Suspend All Activities Of Bitdefender 2013?
I am using BD Total Security 2013. I am having trouble connecting to my work's remote access (using Juniper Secure Remote Access) and I suspect that switching from Microsoft Security Essentials to BD could be the reason. I would like to suspend all of BD's activities (AV, firewall, antispam, antiphishing, EVERYTHING) for a…
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Bitdefender Total Security 2013 Vs. Bitdefender Windows 8 Security
Hi, I have 3 PC's at home: One Windows 7 and two Windows 7. Should I use Bitdefender Total Security 2013 on all 3? I can buy the product for 3 licenses at lower cost than single PC. Or should I use Bitdefender Windows 8 Security on the Windows 8 PC's? Is Bitdefender Windows 8 Security that much better (how?) for Windows 8…
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If I Buy Bitdefender Total Security 2013 Value Edition M2 - 3pcs/2years Now, Will I Get The 2014 Ver
"Bitdefender Total Security 2013 Value Edition M2 - 3PCs/2Years" is being sold at a discount now that 2014 versions are out. If I buy "Bitdefender Total Security 2013 Value Edition M2 - 3PCs/2Years" now, will I get the 4014 version and, presumably the 2015 version when they are out? Thanks. Aloke