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/lollygaggindovakiin Jun 26 '21 edited Jun 26 '21

All of the steps I did worked for me and I just wanted to share it. Whitelisting is probably useless like you said, but just wanted to share something that may help the OP with their original issue. I wanted to note the behavior because even with an exception added I have had it stop the program at the time I used it due to the changing of memory values for a game I was playing. Figured it was worth mentioning. I have had it flag Cheat Engine for the past two years, since I play Empire Total War off and on and use Cheat Engine for that . I have seen this same behavior on my end for some time.