Bitdefender Home Scanner - do I need an IoT scanner?

system · 2017-05-30T19:12:26.000Z

-https://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/smart-home-scanner.html
“a free tool that scans your Wi-Fi network, maps devices and identifies and highlights network security flaws”

I guess it’s similar to Avast Home Network Security (Wi-Fi Inspector) and don’t need to have both installed?

Thanks Avast.

Eddy · 2017-05-30T19:19:44.000Z

I would say ask Bidefender what it does/what is scans etc and compare it with what avast is saying.

Pondus · 2017-05-30T19:23:54.000Z

There is a FAQ if you scroll down

polonus · 2017-05-31T11:33:39.000Z

Now detected as Adware for 85%:
https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/ef53ecd6c6dbd3c0a2f612a99331fba5a85e0ff318174ce651f8ee1b3bb63f2f?environmentId=100
and https://virustotal.com/en/file/ef53ecd6c6dbd3c0a2f612a99331fba5a85e0ff318174ce651f8ee1b3bb63f2f/analysis/1496222170/#item-detail

Bitdefender was found out before to have “somewhat sticky” privacy fingers towards end-users. Now again?
Oh, and Voodooshield blocked it, even while it was signed.

polonus

mchain · 2017-05-31T18:57:47.000Z

Thanks for that, Pol.

Besides, just as with running anything else, possibility of conflict is higher/increases if you run similar programs together. If it ain’t broke, you don’t got to fix it.

polonus · 2017-05-31T21:18:25.000Z

You are welcome, mchain,

With having good tools to do the job, what more do you need, my forum friend?

And you are so right, it takes not much to get a system to go bunkers.

pol

system · 2017-05-31T21:36:16.000Z

Bunch of helpful replies. Maybe I need to pay for Avast Support…

mchain · 2017-06-01T00:45:27.000Z

Spawn post:7:

Bunch of helpful replies. Maybe I need to pay for Avast Support…

Pay for what?

polonus · 2017-06-01T04:37:24.000Z

We are volunteers here and our advice is as free as free can be, at least mine is.

polonus

polonus · 2017-06-01T19:38:49.000Z

Contemplation whether the tool is worth installing, has led me to the following considerings →

When unhack.me could be used against this possibly backdoored executable, something suspicious is being detected, no matter while the tool is genuine or a false positive. Consider: http://malwarefixit.com/trojan/win32-trojan-wisdomeyes-16070401-9500-9999-ycva-exe.htm
& http://security.raritysoft.com/malware/baidu/win32-trojan-wisdomeyes-16070401-9500-9999?show=10

More identifiers for that adware here: http://telussecuritylabs.com/threats/show/TSL20161011-22

polonus

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