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TrafficLight extensions for Chrome & Firefox linking to a Romanian domain
One day into setting up BitDefender and I already wonder if my computer has been compromised. I just signed up for a Netgear Armor trial on my Orbi and installed BitDefender for Mac onto my MacBook P...
ekrub wrote:It doesn't inspire confidence when the links for TrafficLight extensions for Chrome and Firefox take you to a Romanian domain: https://www.bitdefender.ro/solutions/trafficlight.html
Lol ... .com is good, .ro is bad?
The Chrome Webstore does find it as https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/bitdefender%20trafficlight
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Offered by: trafficlight.bitdefender.com
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trafficlight/cfnpidifppmenkapgihekkeednfoenal
Similar on Firefox, I always end on the .com site ... except that the main site does follow the language preferences (e.g. going to .de or to .com/fr/
ekrub wrote:I'm guessing that it's a programming mistake by BitDefender (once again, doesn't inspire confidence) and TrafficLight can be downloaded from: https://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/trafficlight.html
BitDefender does maintain many local domains like bitdefender.ca bitdefender.ro or bitdefender.ch ...
A not-so-fun on the .ch is aht the certificate does not match - they installed the Canada certificate .ca on the Swiss .ch site
Humans everywhere. That's a bug 8-)
ekrub wrote:Is there any official documentation of this bug? I wasn't able to find it. I would feel at least a little more reassured if BitDefender had acknowledged the bug.
And if you want to learn more about BitDefender - you might start here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitdefender I'd say .com might be a bug, .ro isn't.
FWIW, the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca is an institute with 20'000 students, leading edge AI and RPA engineers are coing from there, like our friends from UIPath ... look here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UiPath 8-)