Bad BitDefender Update Clobbers Windows PCs

alphadogg writes "Users of the BitDefender antivirus software started flooding the company's support forums Saturday, apparently after a faulty antivirus update caused 64-bit Windows machines to stop working. The company acknowledged the issue in a note explaining the problem. 'Due to a recent update it is possible that BitDefender detects several Windows and BitDefender files as infected with Trojan.FakeAlert.5,' the company said. The acknowledgment came after BitDefender users had logged hundreds of posts on the topic. Some complained of being unable to reboot their systems."

Re:Update Filter / Schedule

[KarmaMB84]

BitDefender is a third party anti-virus package.

Re:Update Filter / Schedule

[Anonymous Coward]

you good sir, are an idiot. This update has nothing todo with Windows updates. Before you go on a rant about something you obviously have no clue about, how about RTFA first.

I guess you must work in the food industry after all, probably the dumb fuck who always messes up my food when I go out to eat. Perhaps the root of the problem for you, was that your mom did drugs and drank while you were developing, and then she opted for a water-birth and you drowned a bit too long after you fell out of her cunt.

Do us a favor, and just go rest in the middle of a busy highway during rush-hour traffic.

Re:Or maybe...

[Anonymous Coward]

Viruses. Virii is fake latinization and incorrect.

Re:Update Filter / Schedule

[Rockoon]

The shame is that even though you put so much time into that post, you didn't bother knowing what the fuck you were talking about.

Trusting your AV too far...

[runward]

This happened to me, too... bitdefender would flag nearly any file, and it first flagged a file that I had just updated, so I was genuinely concerned. The next file is flagged, however, was usbstor.sys, so I knew the AV was probably wrong.

Some people were running virus scans... tens of thousands of false detection, and all of the files were quarantined or deleted... it was a really bad situation for many. I'm not sure how non-technical users fared.

I use bitdefender on my computer only - I like the aggressive detection capabilities and reporting options. However, no one else in my house wants to know what their AV is doing - they just want it to work - and bitdefender is probably the worst option for them.

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I've had similar with COMODO

[thatbloke83]

Another Antivirus software package (COMODO) has caused problems of this nature for me at work - it updated, asked to reboot and on rebooting we were just presented with a black screen, the desktop wouldn't load. Fortunately we were able to reboot into safe mode and just uninstall it until there was an update issued, but it was still part of a morning lost... While it's impossible to test every configuration ever, I'd have thought that something that would affect EVERY system in an office using this software should have been picked up during testing... Well you learn from your mistakes. If it happens again, there will be hell to pay, I'm sure.

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Re:Update Filter / Schedule

[1s44c]

The real irony here is, that you even NEED a 3rd party application to make your machine secure.

It doesn't even do that. The third party application takes time to react to new viruses so can never do more than reduce the insecurity.

Re:How many times does this happen?

[drsmithy]

Sounds really nice to you?

Sounds like paranoia to me.