Why is the latest version of Bitdefender blocking any download of the latest version of the brave browser from the official brave browser web site as “infected”? The .tmp file that is used for the download is immediately moved to quarantine by Bitdefender and downloading fails. Both the 32 and 64 b…

It must be a fake alarm, if you still have doubts use the scanners of virustotal.com

Hello, @FlightControl . Does BitDefender offer any additional information? Typically the application will tell you why it is blocking an app. Any input would be greatly appreciated. For example, we’ve seen some security applications block Brave on account of Tor or blocking lists. These have always b…

Bitdefender marks it as “Gen:Variant.Ulise.139849”. The file can’t be submitted to Virustotal.com , because Bitdefender blocks the download well before completion.

Thirteen engines detect this as Gen:Variant.Ulise.139849 at Virus Total . Here’s what Bitdefender reports - The file C:\Users\mE\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Cache\f_00731b is infected with Gen:Variant.Ulise.139849 and was moved to quarantine. It is recommended that y…

I also had this problem while trying to use Brave for the first time ever, quite disappointed… And as far as you said earlier, yeah, 13 are too many “false positives” in Virus Total. Below is my image for the detection of Bitdefender Total Security 2021: [image]

There was one guy in this topic used Virus Total to scan the file and detected in 13 engines, not so sure about the result since I cannot upload the file which has been deleted by my Bitdefender.

Well, when I downloaded brave and scanned it with virus total it didn’t give me any detections but almost 7 months have passed since that, so I’m not sure about now.

I renounced downloading Brave today because of this. While downloading Bitdefender identifies there is a threat with named : Gen:Variant.Ulise.139849. Path: C After a quick search it is indeed a malevolent adware. Why would Brave team sabotage their product this way ? It’s baffling. I hope there …

Sorry all you Bitdefender users, I use Avast premium and didn’t have any issues. I run scans constantly with Superantispyware and about 10 other on Demand scanners and none of them have found what any of you are stating.

BitDefender is not new to false positives, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitdefender#Criticism On the whole, I don’t trust this closed-source antivirus. Anyway, @sampson had better contact Bitdefender Support to report the issue.

Bitdefender blocks BraveBrowserSetup.exe as infected when downloading!

Brave Browser

Markook January 26, 2021, 10:21pm 18

Yeah, that antivirus software detected the Installer since time ago. Check my first topic about this:

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Bitdefender blocks BraveBrowserSetup.exe as infected when downloading!

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