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New Gmail phishing scam exploits Google’s own tools—Here’s how to stay safe
A sophisticated phishing scam is targeting Gmail users worldwide, and it’s particularly dangerous because the emails appear to come directly from Google. This scam bypasses traditional security filters and can trick even vigilant users into handing over sensitive information. What’s Happening? Cybercriminals are sending…
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Introducing Bitdefender GravityZone PHASR – Dynamic Attack Surface Reduction
Cybercriminals increasingly rely on Living off the Land (LOTL) tactics — abusing legitimate tools and trusted applications to blend into enterprise environments. These tactics are now involved in 70% of cyberattacks, making conventional controls ineffective. Bitdefender GravityZone PHASR (Proactive Hardening and Attack…
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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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Bitdefender branded merch: Yay or nay? Tell us what you think!
Here's a glimpse of what some of our branded materials look like. These items are not available for sale, they are just experimental designs created exclusively for the Bitdefender teams as part of internal initiatives. I've been thinking about asking this question on the forum for a while now, and I decided to create a…
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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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All USB stop working after the latest update
As of 2025-02-20 the latest Bitdefender Total Security update cause all USB ports stop working (Windows 10 22H2). I spent almost a whole day for trying reinstall USB drivers and cleaning up Windows. None of these steps working. However, when I uninstalled Bitdefender, all was fine again!!! To clarify problem: USB can't see…
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Auto Renewal
Really disgusted by the forced entry of auto renew credit card details when entering a new subscription code, the lack of a clear cancel auto renew option in Bitdefender Central and being palmed off to Verifone by technical support. What should have been a 30 second entry of a new code has become a whole morning of…
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Application.BrowsEx.Apps.J Virus ?
Hello, Does anyone know anything about a virus called Application.BrowsEx.Apps.J ? I can't find much of anything on-line. I picked this up recently from an infected on-line update for a commercial program called LTspice. It apparently infects update.exe and .msi installation files that it finds on the affected PC.…
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Green Check Marks in google search results upside down?
When I google something sometimes the check marks are there and sometimes they're not even though I never change my settings in bitdefender or anything. Today I googled something and the check marks are there but they are upside down for some reason. I'm assuming just a random glitch maybe but it's not just one random…
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Hosts File access
Hi, I'm using Windows 10. I've just started using Bitdefender after using Kaspersky for many years. In the light of the current circumstances I decided to uninstall Kaspersy for obvious reasons. I am a developer and I need to be able to switch my hosts file at the click of a button. I had written a program to do this and…
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System Restore Point Windows 11
Good morning. I wonder if someone cold please let me know what I need to do to allow a System Restore point to work. I've tried disabling Bitdefender Total Security before trying to run the restore but it still does not work. From my googling it seems to be anti virus that could prevent the restore point from doing the…
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New design for Networks in Bitdefender GravityZone
A few questions regarding the new design under Networks in Bitdefender GravityZone. There are two general issues that make working with the new design significantly more time-consuming: Where have the red indicators in the tree gone, the ones that showed there were issues in a particular branch? It used to be very quick…
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Can I Install Bitdefender VPN On A Fire Stick?
Can I Install Bitdefender VPN On A Fire Stick?
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Suspect someone has access to my router and network - help pls.
Hello As above. I suspect that someone else is using my network / router. I now have Bitdefender Premium…what function or toll could I use to identify if this is the case and if so block them. All help appreciated.
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How to disable the annoying VPN notification. ACTUAL FIX
Noticed there is 5 years worth of people trying to disable this notification. I was one of them and finally figured out how today. Open bitdefender. Click the privacy tab on the left of the dashboard page, under the VPN box click open VPN, click the settings wheel on the left side of the VPN window, under that settings…
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Bitdefender total security missing a process in taskmanager issue
Hi everyone, On one of my windows 10 laptops I had only 12 bitdefender processes running, I then rebooted and now I have 13 processes running while there are supposed to be 14 bitdefender processes. One of the "bduserhost.exe" processes is missing (only 3 are running), on my other windows PC's I have the normal 14…
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Microsoft.Internal.WarpPal.dll
Hi all, I am having some weird behaviour from msedgewebview2.exe where lots of TCP connections are made. While they seem like legitimate Microsoft ASNs, their geography is a bit mixed, and I don't think my current ISP works the best for this particular scheme. Microsoft.Internal.WarpPal.dll is found in these following…
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Windows Anti Theft tools inaccessible from Android App
Hi all, New BitDefender subscriber here for the first time since using McAfee for the past 15 years nearly. So far really love it - having an issue with Central on Android though. I can use the anti theft suite of tools via the Web client of BitDefender central but when I try via the android app, I get greeted with: "An…
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Turn Bitdefender off
How do I temporarily switch Bitdefender off, to allow my computor Bios and drivers to update ?
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Windows Anti Theft tools inaccessible from Android App
Hello everyone! I can use the suite of anti-theft tools through the BitDefender central web client, but when I try through the Android app, I'm greeted with: "An active subscription is required to enable the bitdefender protection app and perform remote actions on this device." Is this a function disabled by default? Thanks
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VPN - Widget for Windows 11
Hello, Please add a Widget for VPN. Just like it is done in Antivirus. A very useful function. It will allow you to monitor the correct operation of VPN. The Widget should have a Connect/Disconnect icon.
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Technology Against Scammers
This current post is the result of several months of work. I tried to describe the whole thing in a somewhat story-like manner to make it easier to digest. I have always been drawn to technology, codes, and how things work behind the scenes. One day, during a routine check, I stumbled upon a strange email in my spam…
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I cannot open the installation file on more than one computer.
I cannot open the installation file to open my Bitdefender.. I happens on both computers i have. i want a refund, please.
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Automatic Update of Bitdefender Bricked My Macbook macOS 15.3.2
This afternoon, I received a message stating that a Bitdefender update was available and that I needed to restart my MacBook. After restarting, a menu line for Antivirus for Mac appeared at the top of the macOS login screen. I was unable to get past this screen and could not click on anything with the mouse or type in my…
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Bitdefender support contact mail
Hi @Flexx You said in the now closed discussing https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/comment/349212#Comment_349212 :"As far as I know, the email address you mentioned is not valid for sending emails. It is used solely by Bitdefender support to send replies to queries submitted by users through the Bitdefender…
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weird detection : Application.Generic.3870983
idk what is that but bitdefender decided to flag most reg files of my games as Application.Generic.3870983, idk why but i just restored, yet im still worried, can someone explain what is this?
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Can Chrome trust the SecurePass extension?
Hello, When trying to add the SecurePass extension to Chrome from a warning window pops up saying secure browsing does not trust this extension. I just followed the link from Bitdefender Central. Given the already low rating and complaints is it even worth installing? Thank you
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How do you add Microsoft Outlook to Bitdefender email protection? Issue with Bitdefender software!
I'm having a very difficult time setting up my email protection for my Outlook account. I desperately need to get this to work because Outlook is my primary email provider. I followed all the steps and provided Bitdefender with access to my email account, and for some reason, I still keep getting an error message. I have…
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How do I stop Bitdefender creating new rules in firewall?
Hi guys. I have an issue with Bitderender firewall. I deny access to applications in the rules section, but Bitdefender creates new rules on those applications, giving it acces to the internet. It is rather annoying to deny access to the internet for certain programs, then later discover that Bitdefender created a new…
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SECOND MONITOR
Hello to everyone. I used as a second monitor a TV screen until yesterday when I bought bitdefender. Today my laptop cannot connect with this monitor. I checked hdmi and it is ok. I connected TV screen with another device throught the same hdmi and it is ok again. Finally, I checked the connection of Laptop with another TV…
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Safepay no longer prints to default printer
Hope someone can help. Printing when in Safepay has always worked correctly until one day it didn't. The default printer shown in the footer of the Safepay page is correct (a physical printer) but when asked to print it now just opens up Microsoft OneNote. I don't understand what could have caused this change or how to…
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Can someone tell me how to get tracktransit off of my computer?
Hi can you tell me how to get this off of my computer? Thanks!
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Windows 11 24H2
Today I did an upgrade to 24H2. I went to see how much the Windows.old folder takes up on the drive and BD dens of registry keys. For example: The registry path hklm\software\microsoft\active setup\installed components\{2c7339cf-2b09-4501-b3f3-f3508c9228ed} was moved to quarantine during a cleanup routine following the…
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Access to https://www.googleadservices.com/
Hello, I recently switched from Norton 360 to BitDefender, and I am getting used to how this Anti-Virus and VPN works. One issue I can't seem to resolve is getting my VPN to allow access to "https://www.googleadservices.com/" For some reason, when I use Google Chrome and search for something, the first 2-3 sponsored…