I tried both the online BitDefender scanner and the trial version about 1.5 years ago and uninstalled it soon afterward. You know I still have pieces of BD still within my system, I mainly see pieces of it when I run AutoRuns and ProcessExplorer. How tenacious is BitDefender anyway? It acts like it's native to XP or something. Maybe it was designed by QuickTime or Real or Music Matchbox?
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Started by Corona, Jun 14 2008 04:33 PM
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Posted 14 June 2008 - 04:36 PM
Corona, on Jun 14 2008, 12:33 PM, said:
I tried both the online BitDefender scanner and the trial version about 1.5 years ago and uninstalled it soon afterward. You know I still have pieces of BD still within my system, I mainly see pieces of it when I run AutoRuns and ProcessExplorer. How tenacious is BitDefender anyway? It acts like it's native to XP or something. Maybe it was designed by QuickTime or Real?
You still see pieces of Bitdefender in Process Explorer? Process Explorer shows you the running processes on your machine. If you removed Bitdefender you shouldn't have any of it's processes running.
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Posted 14 June 2008 - 04:37 PM
I was just about to correct that. I only see it within AutoRuns.
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Posted 14 June 2008 - 05:00 PM
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Posted 14 June 2008 - 05:01 PM
For example, if I see "BDFsDrv File not found: C:\Program Files\Softwin\BitDefender10\bdfsdrv.sys" is it safe to delete within Autoruns? I already have any files related to BD turned off (unchecked).
Okay, just read the above posts. Will try.
Okay, just read the above posts. Will try.
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Posted 14 June 2008 - 05:15 PM
Hmmm, I tried that BitDefender uninstaller app but I still see the entries in Autoruns. I've had them "unchecked" in Autoruns. I guess I'll re-check them and run the uninstaller again.
And I'll ask again, if a file or driver in Autoruns is listed as "file not found", is it safe to delete?
And I'll ask again, if a file or driver in Autoruns is listed as "file not found", is it safe to delete?
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Posted 14 June 2008 - 05:19 PM
Yeah you can delete those. The uninstall may not have gotten them since Autoruns moves unticked programs into a different registry key than when you use MSConfig.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\AutorunsDisabled
