Wow launcher not downloading patch

Run a security scan to remove any viruses or malware infections. If the problem persists, uninstall and reinstall the game. Tried everything here? Did you find this article helpful? Yes No. Help us improve. Please rate the following from a scale of 1 to 5 stars: This article is easy to find. Sorry to hear that! We'd like to know what's wrong. Please check any which apply: This information isn't relevant to my issue.

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Loaded that. Updated all the content since then. And again: I open the Battlenet launcher. Now I do not know if there is something fishy with Blizzard files or Bitdefender is messing up?! Hi not sure if you use Bitdefender, but i received this info from them. I cannot put in urls here so replacing. As two people mentioned, if you have BitDefender then that may be blocking the app from connecting to the patch servers.

The new battle. Same symptoms where it floods the network so hard no traffic moves. Have you tried temporarily uninstalling it?

I logged a ticket with Bitdefender and they acknowledge that it is a problem on their site.