I see a process in Activity Monitor that I don't understand called BDextensioncommunication, with another user account's name associated with it, even though that user is not logged in.
Any idea what it is?
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
Well, I'd remove Bitdefender Anti-tracker, that sounds like it.
By any chance are you using Bit Defender for antivirus? Some of their processes start with BD and I'm thinking it may be when they are updating their definitions or something like that.
steve taffee
Hi, probably a BitDefender module. Best regards.
Correct. Bitdefender.
Mine was eating up over 100% of my CPU yesterday when I uploading and downloading files. I noticed, however, it was still at 97% this morning with no file transfers. It dropped to 0% when I rebooted and has stayed there.
can only find mention of that extention on French sites...
Excellent info, good work, what FireFox Extensions might you have...
At the risk of appearing paranoid: Adblock Plus, Ghoster, Privacy Badger, Traffic Light, uBlock Origin, Dashlane, Adobe Acrobat. I have Bitdefender Anti-tracker but it's disabled. Must have gotten in the way.
Ah, good catch Steve... I was trying to figure out the BD connection but gave up! :)
Rebooted my iMac running Catalina and Bitnet and let it warm up for a couple of minutes. Opened Activity Monitor, CPU tab, and sorted by Process Name. Scrolled down to processes starting with BD. Started Safari, Vivaldi, and Tor, none of which changed BD lineup. Started Firefox which started BDExtensionCommunication (BDEC) but showed no CPU usage. Tried uploading and downloading movies to Dropbox with no increase in BDCE CPU usage. The usage was so high yesterday that it jacked up my fan so I'll watch for future use.
BDextensioncommunication
