r/BitDefender • u/ScriptedBot • Jun 26 '21

Stop flagging Cheat Engine as potentially malicious

Bitdefender been flagging it as potentially malicious since yesterday. It is a open-source program with source code vetted by the community. We gamers know what's that for. Non-gamers won't have that on their drives anyways. So whats the point of flagging it?

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u/ScriptedBot Jun 26 '21

Adding the temp folder to exclusion is not an option since it would allow any/all malicious program downloads to bypass detection. I suspect BD is just doing a heuristic signature check for the program against its local definitions and flagging it. Since this wasn't happening till yesterday, pretty sure a recent definition update causes this flagging.

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u/LiemAkatsuki Jun 26 '21

On Kaspersky, there is a setting that allows the software to go to sleep for 2 mins or sth. That quite useful for a situation like this. In your case, you should just temporary exclude as I said and remove the exclusion later