I have been away for hours as that's how long it took to uninstall BD, re install kasperksy, and do
A full system scan with Kaspersky
A full system scan with ESET online scanner
A full system scan with...
I had it uninstalled and installed BD after restart. I contacted Norton and they sent a Remove and Reinstall tool to delete traces of their software....
I uninstalled Kaspersky Antivirus which was previously installed with the instructions provided on their site.
You can see the error on the attachment....
As for the workaround, you could uninstall Bitdefender, then install Bittorrent, reinstall Bitdefender, set the exception for ATD then check if the program is still being blocked by the antivirus....