My problem was certain launchers cause game mode to stay on. For a while it was Battle.net, then it was Epic. Game mode would never turn off if you let those launchers run in the background, which I did to let games update in the background so I don’t have spend my precious free time updating games. It was doing it up until last fall when I tried it last.
Oh, I see. I saw Kaspersky also enabling game mode when you run steam whether you start a game or not. That's a problem if it hasn't been fixed yet. But I can't tell without testing it.
When I was using it more consistently on multiple devices, that was the first thing I would turn off. It's also what I advise on the forum when members are struggling with some of those issues. I believe now on a clean install, that feature is turned off (due to some of the issues and feedback regarding it) and has to manually be enabled as Auto Profiles, or individual Work, Movie, Game, etc profiles.
That's recurrent with both Bitdefender and Kaspersky. If it follows the pattern of the last few times it happened, there will be an Adguard update pretty soon.
Two products doing HTTPS scanning will always keep creating problems sooner or later, I think.
Bitdefender’s most recent version number is 27.0.40.174 and was released on July 24, 2024.
What is hash-based signature ? D:A few days ago, I sent Bitdefender a not-so-important malware (embedded redirector script in a HTML) that was only being detected by ESET.
BD analyst created a bad sha1/sha256/similar hash based signature (So did Avast). I sent them the same sample with a different hash and asked them to create a proper signature. But again they created a hash-based signature.
Two days later I saw that they finally created a proper signature but they previous two hash-based signature were still present in their database.
Yesterday, sent an email to their support asking their analysts to remove those two useless signatures and today in the morning, received a reply that the signatures will be removed and just now checked that they have indeed removed them
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BTW, many products create basic hash-based signatures for not-so-prevalent samples. Very common for McAfee (mostly cloud based), Norton and some Chinese and other low-quality copy-cat VT detection products, moderately common for Avast, Avira, Microsoft Defender, less common for Bitdefender, very rare for Kaspersky, extremely rare for ESET (All based on my experience only).
For example, this is the sha256 hash of a notepad file that I just created on my desktop and wrote random letters in it:What is hash-based signature ? D:
www.bitdefender.com
community.bitdefender.com
