I'm glad some others are having success with BitDefender, but as of two hours ago, I uninstalled this program from my computer and have moved on to testing TotalAV. The problems with BitDefender continued to get worse when I discovered that on Dec 3rd for some reason, BitDefender decided that Macrium Backup files were a danger and it deleted all of my local full, differential and incremental backups and was crashing Macrium each time it tried to run a scheduled backup.
I ran a backup with BitDefender installed and it worked perfectly until the point where Macrium tried to finalize the backup file at which point BitDefender deleted the file as soon as it could get a record lock and before the Macrium could complete thus breaking the backup. This was on top of me having excluded the Macrium backup destination from BitDefender's scans. Apparently those exclusions are worthless. Interestingly enough, the issues I have had BitDefender when compiling VFP files, running gendbc and backing up my files locally seem to occur whenever the process tries to modify, write or rename the files being created or processed. Each time BitDefender jumps in and attempts to stop the process even though I've excluded programs and folders. I'm done with Bitdefender and my TotalAV review isn't going well either because after installing the program while trying to write this post, it continually tried to force me to buy before it would do anything. Looks like I'm going to Windows Security Essentials in the short term until another option makes itself available. Paul H. Tarver Email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laurie Alvey Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2017 5:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: BitDefender Doesn't Play Well With VFP Windows Defender works for me -no probs. Laurie On 5 December 2017 at 21:07, Paul H. Tarver <[email protected]> wrote: > Someone mentioned potential conflicts with multiple AV systems. I just > realized that I had both BitDefender and MalwareBytes installed. I was > assuming these were doing different jobs, but I've removed > Malwarebytes now and will see if that is what is causing the conflict. > No other AV tools installed so If this doesn't solve it, not sure what else I > can. > > Paul H. Tarver > Email: [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > José Enrique Llopis > Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2017 2:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: BitDefender Doesn't Play Well With VFP > > > Same here, no problem with BitDefender in four or five years. > > Jose Enrique Llopis > > > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] En nombre de Darren > Enviado > el: > martes, 05 de diciembre de 2017 17:40 > Para: [email protected] > Asunto: RE: BitDefender Doesn't Play Well With VFP > > I've been using the Bitdefender for maybe 4 years now with zero issue > re VFP. The only fox related issue is with Refox, which I use rarely, > and that was getting blocked. Added an exception in the "Advanced Threat > Defense" > module and sweet from there. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Paul H. > Tarver > Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2017 2:35 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: BitDefender Doesn't Play Well With VFP > > Just wanted to throw this out and see if anyone is running into > something similar. > > > > I have been wanting to find a new AV tool for my system and have been > testing BitDefender for the last few weeks. I started with the free > version and upgraded to the paid version after I realized the free > version didn't let me exclude processes or files or folders. > > > > However, since I've upgraded, I found that there is apparently > something BitDefender doesn't like about some of the stuff Foxpro does > during compilation (it crashes before completion and throws an error > about unable to write to the path). Alternatively, when I run my > modified GENDBC.prg to create a dbcbuilder file used by my > applications, not only does it crash it trashes the DBC file being processed. > > > > I've tried excluding VFP6 and VFP9 processes and I've tried excluding > files to no avail. The only solution is to go into BitDefender and > turn it off for > 15 minutes or so and then I can complete the GENDBC or compilation > process without any problems. > > > > So here's my questions: > > > > 1) Is there something I need to do different with BitDefender to make > be more friendly to VFP? > > 2) Should I just dump Bitdefender and go with a different AV tool? If > so, what's the recommended tool. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Paul H. 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