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Gdata Total Security 2022
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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 993936" data-attributes="member: 78686"><p>Looks like they follow Bitdefender's removal procedure. It's been like this for Bitdefender since 2009 at least. When Bitdefender's real time protection detects a couple of threats, it will block everything from modifying hidden files toggle and enable the show file extension option. Apparently this is a method used by them to stop malware from modifying system settings. You get control over it again after restarting the system. Trend Micro was like this also many years ago, but they let you enable hidden files if I remember correctly. Trend's removal engine is normal now, except they change UAC to default settings, no matter at what settings it was set before. Norton often keeps a blank 0 KB file of the same name as the malware in that location. This is part of Norton's removal engine, and it's done to prevent malware from regenerating on that location. It gets removed after system restart.</p><p>So, don't expect G-Data to do anything about it. That's how their removal engine is designed to work, as far as I am concerned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 993936, member: 78686"] Looks like they follow Bitdefender's removal procedure. It's been like this for Bitdefender since 2009 at least. When Bitdefender's real time protection detects a couple of threats, it will block everything from modifying hidden files toggle and enable the show file extension option. Apparently this is a method used by them to stop malware from modifying system settings. You get control over it again after restarting the system. Trend Micro was like this also many years ago, but they let you enable hidden files if I remember correctly. Trend's removal engine is normal now, except they change UAC to default settings, no matter at what settings it was set before. Norton often keeps a blank 0 KB file of the same name as the malware in that location. This is part of Norton's removal engine, and it's done to prevent malware from regenerating on that location. It gets removed after system restart. So, don't expect G-Data to do anything about it. That's how their removal engine is designed to work, as far as I am concerned. [/QUOTE]
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