willa19@nospambaby.org, 1/15/2007,12:19:40 PM, wrote:

> I just loaded the free version of Bit Defender 8, and although it's
> classified as an on-demand scanner, I noticed that it loads several
> dll files into startup.
>
> Is it safe to delete those or how can I continue to use it as an on
> demand scanner without it loading every time I start Windows? In
> summary, I just want it to run when I decide to use it as a secondary
> scanner - sort of like the way I have Ad-Aware installed.

Does BitDefender have automatic updates? Maybe those are what's
getting loaded. Check out the options and/or try
Start--Run--services.msc to see if you can change their startup to
Manual.