Re: TrafficLight extensions for Chrome & Firefox linking to a Romanian domain

ekrub · ‎2019-06-03

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 Pro laptop. 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

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

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.

schumaku · ‎2019-06-03

@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
...
Offered by: trafficlight.bitdefender.com

...

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-)

ekrub · ‎2019-06-05

I didn't mean to suggest that .ro is bad; rather, sending English-speaking users to a site written in Romanian surely is not intentional behavior of the application (i.e., an oversight) and seeing an oversight during the first impression of an application you are trusting to keep your computer safe doesn't inspire confidence.

schumaku · ‎2019-06-05

One can just guess that some local language preferences on your system or browser might have an impact. Just seen English, German, and French versions from here while testing. But all explainable for me.

ScottBLA · ‎2019-06-22

I get the same behavior. Maybe it's a Mac thing. It still seems lame. All other sites/apps work as expected in English