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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 966284" data-attributes="member: 78686">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://malwaretips.com/threads/i-will-never-use-bitdefender-again.107113/post-966250[/URL]Thanks to user [USER=73194]@South Park[/USER]&#039;s comment on the above thread, I got interested and checked whether he&#039;s right or not. Turns out the &quot;Scan Script&quot; feature in Bitdefender which is off by default (for most if not all) is AMSI. When it&#039;s enabled, AMSI is on, otherwise it&#039;s off. I checked this using three methods in the latest Bitdefender Total Security 26.0.3.29.So this could be the reason why Bitdefender performed worse than expected in this test. Bitdefender free have almost no configuration options, so AMSI is not present in that product. Looks like the feature being off in the paid versions is not a bug, it&#039;s by choice. Though I don&#039;t know why.All paid Bitdefender user should manually enable the feature to increase protection against scripts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 966284, member: 78686"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://malwaretips.com/threads/i-will-never-use-bitdefender-again.107113/post-966250[/URL] Thanks to user [USER=73194]@South Park[/USER]'s comment on the above thread, I got interested and checked whether he's right or not. Turns out the "Scan Script" feature in Bitdefender which is off by default (for most if not all) is AMSI. When it's enabled, AMSI is on, otherwise it's off. I checked this using three methods in the latest Bitdefender Total Security [B]26.0.3.29[/B]. So this could be the reason why Bitdefender performed worse than expected in this test. Bitdefender free have almost no configuration options, so AMSI is not present in that product. Looks like the feature being off in the paid versions is not a bug, it's by choice. Though I don't know why. All paid Bitdefender user should manually enable the feature to increase protection against scripts. [/QUOTE]

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