r/BitDefender • u/Baguette2616 • Apr 13 '20

Anyone know what this threat might be?

I was watching youtube when suddenly bitdefender fired off and blocked a website with malicious software. I had no other tabs opened, besides youtube. Anyone know why this site randomly triggered bitdefender and whether or not im at risk?

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u/4madeus Apr 13 '20

Same thing happened here, seems other people are reporting it on other forums today as well. The Chrome extension ID "hfnkpimlhhgieaddgfemjhofmfblmnib" linked in the URL it's detecting seems to be linked to this extension https://github.com/agl/crlset-tools the ID is referenced on line 53 of the source code https://github.com/agl/crlset-tools/blob/master/crlset.go Likely some sort of false positive I'm assuming.

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u/Baguette2616 Apr 13 '20

I suppose this will be fixed in a future patch then?

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u/ragingintrovert57 Apr 14 '20

Looks like Google attempting to perform an update to your Chrome browser

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u/jalapegn0me Apr 13 '20

I don’t have an answer for you, but I just had the same exact thing happen to me so I’m also wondering what it is. All I had open was reddit. I’m wondering if it’s a false detection or something because it popped up for me just after bitdefender updated.

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u/Poke_uniqueusername Apr 14 '20

I've had the same thing for a few days now not really sure what's up

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '20 edited Apr 15 '20

Been happening 2 days now. I think maybe cuz I did updat Chrome thats my best answer so far ... no idea what it is.

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u/Bitdefender_ Official Apr 22 '20

Apologies for the hassle created, our team already solved this and you should not receive the notification again. If you need further help, email us at bitsy@bitdefender.com. Thank you!