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Bitdefender product updates and release notes
Bitdefender ensures the best cyber-security available on the market and offers a wealth of features designed to keep your devices safe. Upgrading to the newest version is possible without following the manual uninstall and reinstall procedure. More exactly, the new product including new features and major product…
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Bitdefender Awards and Certifications: Industry Recognition
Antimalware Test Results from Leading Agencies: AV-Test, AV-Comparatives, MRG Effitas, Virus Bulletin, and more. This post is dedicated to showcasing the latest antimalware testing results conducted by various organizations. Only admins @Alexandru_BD and @Mike_BD, along with moderators @fedor, @Nunzio77, @Gjoksi, and…
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GIVEAWAY: Innovator's Quest - Join the Ultimate Challenge for Creative Thinkers
Calling all creative minds in the Bitdefender Community! We are excited to announce the Innovator's Quest – a contest designed to harness the power of innovation and insight from our community to drive the future of cybersecurity. 💡🔒 How to Participate Register in the Bitdefender Expert Community using your Central…
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GIVEAWAY: Innovator's Quest - Voting is now open!
📣 Hello everyone, We’re excited to announce that Phase 2 of the Innovator's Quest is now live! 🙌 After carefully reviewing all submissions, our team has selected the top 10 ideas that stood out for their creativity and impact. Now, it’s up to you – our community – to decide which are the winning ideas! Without further ado,…
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The Bitdefender Expert Community guidelines and tips to get you started!
Our mission: Welcome to the Bitdefender Expert Community! These forums allow Bitdefender users and enthusiasts to connect with each other in order to share tips and insights, resolve issues, and discuss all things related to tech and cybersecurity. Our promise is to nurture and maintain an environment where real people can…
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Guidelines for Product features & Ideation
We are always excited to hear your suggestions and ideas about Bitdefender products and services. To ensure our product developers can use your suggestions, we have a couple of guidelines, to help you get the best out of the Product features & Ideation section: It is essential that all ideas include a user story, that is,…
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Why does bitdefender block my outgoing mac mail and/or gmail?
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Bit defender is blocking my outgoing mail in apple mail and or google mail
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Windows 11 computer gets slower and slower loading pages and programs
I've been using Bitdefender for a few months now. It seems that everything I open (programs, web pages, etc. takes a LONG time to load! I've tried running Ashampoo Windows optimizer, which clears caches and other things known to slow computers. It is annoying, because I have to look up my password on each program I use…
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How to allow mount drive to Azure file store
I am trying to mount drives to my Azure file stores using: New-PSDrive -Name Z -PSProvider FileSystem -Root "filestorename" -Persist It is blocked and I can only do this if I take out the Firewall entirely. When I do this I then can't add a rule because it is diabled! (Developers, can we add rules even when Firewall not…
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The Defenders of the month are the Community superheroes
It's time to show our appreciation for our top contributors and give back to the Community! We are pleased to announce that we are launching our Super User program called “Defenders of the Month” and “Defenders of the Year”, exclusively for the members of our Community! The Super User program represents an exclusive group…
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How to watch Hotstar in UAE
How to watch Hotstar in UAE if it's restricted to India. I tried VPN but it did not work.
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Bitdefender suddenly started to flag all self extracting compressed file (*.exe) made via WinRAR
The following notification pop up earlier This never pop up before this and I've already made dozens and dozens of compressed self extracting *.exe file throughout the years. I only updated the WinRAR compression app a month ago to the latest 7.01 if that makes any difference, but it is to be noted that even the self…
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how to Install activation and updates on a remote not connected to internet machine?
Hi to all, in our laboratory we have some machines that (for security reasons) do not have an internet connection. Does bitdefender supports offline install, activation and updates, so I can install it on those machines? Do exists an installer version/updates for offline machines? Thanks a lot, Simone
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Should Bitdefender Make A Linux Version for Home Users?
As a longtime user of Bitdefender (since 2014), the topic of a Linux version has been floating around on and off for the past decade. However, what makes these requests different this time around is the end of life support for Windows 10. Many users, unhappy with what Microsoft is doing to with Windows 11, are starting to…
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License upgrade
Hi, I currently have the Total Security license. How can I upgrade to Premium Security Plus without having multiple licenses in Central? Greetings
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Manual scans that repeat twice
Hi @agozob and @Alexandru_BD, i noticed that in the latest version of BMS after performing a manual scan, two or more manual scans are automatically performed after a few minutes. Is this normal or is it a bug? Below are the data from my smartphone Realme 8 5G with Android 13:
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BitdefenderVPN Premium failing to autostart with windows 10
VPN failing to autostart with windows 10 even though set to do so in VPN settings! No matter how many times I set, reset, restart, reinstall the Bitdefender VPN Premium to automatically start with Windows 10 it just doesn't do so. I do not care how brilliant the VPN itself actually is, it is useless to me unless it will…
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Bit Defender Widget Replacement
The bitdefender widget can not be seen when the user is doing any usual activity ( surfing the web, doing work or playing games even in a windowed screen ) As it is very Essential to keep an eye on it to get informed that it's scanning in which means , i ld like to suggest avast anti virus type icon , which rolls itself…
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webrts in brave and the chrome browsers
Brave does not entirely switch off dns , it provides an extra layer of protection for webrtc work out in this way : is it enough ? or you like to suggest some additional security measures? chrome needs extension to disable webrtc , if i need to use an extension , which extension is considered as the most reliable and…
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Bitdefender together with Scuderia Ferrari HP
Bitdefender entered into a multi-year partnership with Ferrari S.p.A., to become Cybersecurity global partner of Scuderia Ferrari HP. Full announcement below: Forza Ferrari!
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How do i submit a false positive detection error?
I have a file = ABMaterial.jar which Bitdefender claims is a virus and blocks and quarantines it. i have contacted the vendors and they say its a false positive which is known and that Bitdefender does not seem to want to attend to the issue as it has been reported before. How does one get this file taken off the "danger"…
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Password Manager not working for chase website
for some reason the Password manager will not prompt to fill the username/password for the site below. https://secure.chase.com/web/auth/dashboard#/dashboard/overview { "product": "bitdefender", "appVersion": "1.3.1", "repo": "64.0.0", "commit": "c8a9937" } Windows OS, Chrome Extension
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Password Manager: Allow generated password to be copied
When providing a password to logon to a new site, Password Manager has a useful feature to generate a strong password for you - BUT I DON'T use it! Because I can't find a way to copy the password to clipboard, and password manager doesn't always recognise the logon and offer to save it, which then leaves me with a new…
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How do I delete a scheduled, custom scan that I created?
Running Bit Defender 27.0.30.136 on Windows 10. I created a scheduled scan that I want to delete and just run it manually from time to time(i.e. less frequently than monthly, which is the longest interval allowed). I only see an option to edit that scan- nothing to delete it. How do I get rid of it? Thanks.
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I need a suggestion about a possible security issue I'm having on my phone
Recently I found the Bluetooth activated by itself when I restarted the smartphone, the VPN had been deactivated, the account was disconnected from the Samsung store and I had received a call from an unknown number while the phone was off (probably spam), I reported it on Members by sending the data, they advised me to see…
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Can you explain to me what this BDTS firewall function is for?
Can you also explain to me whether I should activate it or not?
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Could you suggest me some websites or apps to perform a Isn't search ?
I'm thinking of doing an Osint search to see what I can find about my data online, could you suggest the best way to do it? Searching online I found this site: https://www.osint.industries, however Bitdefender mobile blocks it, what do you think? Is it safe in your opinion? Do you have any other sites or software to…
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Bitdefender VPN Upgrade Message Prevents Me From Using My Free VPN Data. Any Help?
I have Bitdefender Total Security and according to the package information I should get 200 MB per day. However I cannot use it because the VPN box constantly changes to an upgrade message as soon as I open it. And there is no way to open the VPN. This is annoying and unethical and makes me want to cancel my Bitdefender…
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FTP transfer keeps restarting
Hi, Since July 2024 I experience a problem with my FTP uploads to my Synology NAS. It seems to go super fast +300MB/s (in my case it should be 12MB/s), but then it restarts several times. I found one thread on the internet: https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/1/post/188720 but no solution. I use Bitdefender Antivirus…
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Someone really was almost deceived because of the text messages sent by this fake base station....😮
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Download from YouTube link
I downloaded bitedefender total security from YouTube cybernews was this stupid did I make a mistake. I am a newbie to this suff
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Did I compromise security by manually removing com.bitdefender.dmg from scanning exception list?
I recently saw that com.bitdefender.dmg was in the scanning exception list. I removed it from the list, thinking it was some sort of bug. I later found out from the forum post below that this is expected behavior. I haven't seen the exception pop up again during scans, including scans of .dmg files. In the explanation for…
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Bitdefender Logs.
Hello everyone, We have an offline Gravityzone machine installed that no longer updates, in the configuration field the new package is not published, a download failed error appears. I mention that the roles are installed on the same machine. Where should i check the logs too see what's wrong?
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Powershell issues
Hey guys, does anyone know how to fix this issue with powershell? I haven't been able to find any info about it online. I just started using bitdefender this week, and for the last 2 days I have been getting this message pop up every 10 mins : PowerShell tried to load a malicious resource detected as…
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Parental control link
Hi there. The shortcut link for Parental Control of Total Security doesn't seem to be working? Short cut opens page: central.bitdefender.com/404 Thanks.