BitDefender eats your bandwith

[ntvolli]

Hello erverybody,

Perhaps BitDefender provides superior protection, but actually it is not really to use at the time. An old error has resurfaced: BitDefender consumption gradually the bandwidth and so slows surfing. The component Traffic Light has a flaw: It prevents the connections to the servers are terminated once the site visited is left. The connections are closed immediately, but are kept open and get FIN_WAIT2 status. This can be observed with the TCPView tool from Sysinternals very good. Especially this is noticeable when streaming videos. Surfing is gradually slow, the browser reacts slower. This error was actually fixed in version 2015; Now he's back da.Und no, it is not a failure of the firewall, but an error in the webscanner ...

Greets
Olli

 

[Ink]

Would disabling the TrafficLight in Bitdefender temporarily fix the issue? Also does this bug affect the free TrafficLight extension?

 

[ntvolli]

Disabling the bdtl.dll ( the dll for the trafficlight component) fixes this issue, but it turns down your protection. I do not know, if the TrafficLight extension is affected to, but i guess so.

 

[Ink]

Disabling the bdtl.dll ( the dll for the trafficlight component) fixes this issue

Do you have a set of instructions for this procedure, or is it simple as disabling the component from inside of Bitdefender settings?

 

[ntvolli]

I will try it, i just got the instructions from the german support...
Start your pc in safemode.
Then rename the file bdtl.dll from the folder: C: \ Program Files \ Bitdefender \ Bitdefender 2016 bdtl.dl_
Then choose the file "update_components.xml" with the right mouse button and select Edit. Replace the 1 with a 0 in the following section: Product enabled = "1"
Then restart your machine in normal mode.

I would be interessted, if your surfing becomes even fast as mine...

 

[Durden]

as of today , is this error still there ? and if it is , and I did disable trafficlight , what can I use to compensate for it ?