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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 1033253" data-attributes="member: 78686">I tried this just now in a VM, the &quot;Bitdefender agent&quot; startup task can be disabled via Task Manager but that doesn&#039;t stop Bitdefender AV services from running on startup. Bitdefender is still active and detects malware just fine.I saw this in two other AV products 3-4 years ago. Can&#039;t remember which ones. Never tried it on Bitdefender. I might try this if I find a sample as such. Maybe some products immediately scan everything running on memory after enabling protection and some products don&#039;t if no malicious activity is observed. They probably have their reasons. Some products take far unique approach like when you disable Avast&#039;s real-time and behavior shield the BB doesn&#039;t fully shutdown. It still monitors everything and will reverse any malicious actions as soon as you enable the behavior shield again. So, everyone has their reasons for doing things in certain ways. But this is probably not a serious issue. A user should not disable the AV to infect the system and expect the AV to immediately cleanup all the mess. This is not good and should&#039;ve been fixed already. Excuse given by BD for this is similar to unpleasant excuses given by Microsoft regarding Defender&#039;s security.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 1033253, member: 78686"] I tried this just now in a VM, the "Bitdefender agent" startup task can be disabled via Task Manager but that doesn't stop Bitdefender AV services from running on startup. Bitdefender is still active and detects malware just fine. I saw this in two other AV products 3-4 years ago. Can't remember which ones. Never tried it on Bitdefender. I might try this if I find a sample as such. Maybe some products immediately scan everything running on memory after enabling protection and some products don't if no malicious activity is observed. They probably have their reasons. Some products take far unique approach like when you disable Avast's real-time and behavior shield the BB doesn't fully shutdown. It still monitors everything and will reverse any malicious actions as soon as you enable the behavior shield again. So, everyone has their reasons for doing things in certain ways. But this is probably not a serious issue. A user should not disable the AV to infect the system and expect the AV to immediately cleanup all the mess. This is not good and should've been fixed already. Excuse given by BD for this is similar to unpleasant excuses given by Microsoft regarding Defender's security. [/QUOTE]

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