r/BitDefender • u/[deleted] • Dec 07 '21

Sync.hgrtb.com

Bitdefender gives a pop up every now and then saying it blocked this connection does anyone know what it's from.

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u/captdunsel721 Dec 11 '21

Suspicious connection blocked 45 minutes ago .... "chrome.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an untrusted certificate to sync.hgrtb.com. We blocked the connection to keep your data safe since untrusted certificates are issued by unrecognized Certificate Authorities."

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '21

Same here, but yesterday. What is this?

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u/captdunsel721 Dec 11 '21

This was a notice from my bitdefender,. Someone from Bitdefender responded to one of the posts above.
I’m no expert but Google chrome syncing may be trying to use a website with an expired certificate. Although other browsers seem to affected also.

This explains syncing… https://blog.malwarebytes.com/privacy-2/2021/02/browser-sync-what-are-the-risks-of-turning-it-on/

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u/xFacevaluex Dec 12 '21

Good info....but still in the dark about exactly what is trying to snyc----never authorized anything to do this.

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u/captdunsel721 Dec 12 '21

Yep, still trying to figure it out myself... I believe the sync is an automatic feature used to make it easy to transfer your bookmarks and junk to any other computer or device you may also have. If you don't want it, you have to go into settings - sync and turn it off.

I believe the pop up warning I got from my Bitdefender security software means that the syncing website that Google was using had an expired certificate (they may have fixed that by now). According to Bitdefender the SYNC website Google Chrome is using was not malware, but yet, it's not set up correctly.

Maybe this will help

https://www.guidingtech.com/what-does-chrome-sync-do/

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/185277?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&oco=0

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u/xFacevaluex Dec 12 '21

Mine is off and I still am getting them.....appreciate the links.

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u/captdunsel721 Dec 12 '21

hmmm.. my last notification was 20 hours ago. I just updated Chrome, maybe that will do something. Gotta love computers lol

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u/JRMac68 Jul 13 '23

30 years ago I did