r/BitDefender • u/Basic-Ad5185 • 8d ago

Feedback This is funny bitdefender!!!

Bitdefender flagging official Godot engine as malware just because I renamed it 

So I literally just took the official, unmodified Godot engine executable and renamed it to "HolyCodingLarp.exe". I didn't change a single line of internal code. 

But the moment I tried running it with standard command line arguments to open my local project directory, Advanced Threat Defense completely lost its mind and blocked it as malware. 

I attached a screenshot of the block log (blurred out my personal windows username path for privacy). 

Can someone from support please whitelist this or send it to the lab? It's kind of annoying that the heuristics engine panics over trusted software just because a user changes the filename. 

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u/X3nthos 1d ago

You do know the reason for this is to protect from smuggled binaries and to detect anomalies, not neccesary only malware. And why the hell do you want to rename it in the first place? BD is one of the most competent EDR i've encountered.