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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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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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One in five U.S. adults have lost money to online scams: How to avoid being next
A new report released by the FBI has revealed that one in five U.S. adults has fallen victim to online scams, losing a grand total of $1.3B to fraudulent schemes in 2023 alone. This alarming statistic is yet another reminder at how prevalent – and lucrative - online scams have become in just a few years. From phishing…
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Tech Talk with ZONEofTECH: Join the AMA and Get Your Tech Questions Answered!
Dear Bitdefender Community, We are thrilled to announce a special ‘Ask Me Anything’ session featuring none other than ZONEofTECH, one of the top influencers in the tech world! With over 10 years of experience in the field, ZONEofTECH is known for their expert insights, in-depth reviews, and exciting coverage of…
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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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Welcome to Our New Anti-Scam Campaign: Let’s Fight Fraud Together
Online scams pose a bigger threat than ever. In the past few years alone, these attacks have grown in both number and complexity, with official reports indicating billions of dollars are lost annually to cyber crooks. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) reported that victims in the United States lost nearly $10 billion to…
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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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After latest update google is not working/
Need help. After the latest Bitdefender update when vpn is turned on website www.google.com is not working. the only way to work is turn off the VPN or Add domain google.com split -tunneling even then some pages are still slow ro do not load. The current version I am on is 27.1.2.1(b) operation system Windows 11 any help…
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IM trying to install a DAW called Presonus Studio One 6.5 - Fails on Win11 - Why? How to fix?
I have bitdefender for windows installed on my PC and I want to install a DAW called Presonus Studio One 6.5 Professional software. Here is the error I get when trying to install Studio One. "The installer is unable to configure the firewall because a third party firewall (bitdefender firewall) is installed on this system.…
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Amazon Prime Video blocks Bitdefender VPN
How do I use Bitdefender VPN to see videos on Amazon Prime. I want to see videos from the USA Amazon Prime, but since I am temporarily staying in the Philippines it restricts the videos I can see outside of the USA. If I connect to a VPN in the USA, then Amazon Prime Video totally blocks me from seeing any videos. The…
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Want to know status of a ticket
Why is it so difficult to check the status of a ticket? It is also incredibly obfuscated how to cancel a subscription and it took until I got slammed with the auto-renewal to figure it out. I got charged for Bitdefender Total Security when I barely used it previously. I was billed for $250 CAD (roughly) and I don't have…
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BD suddenly using 27-33% of battery, instead of the normal 1-2%. How to ID the issue?
One of the phones I have on my account has an issue with BD draining the battery. On the other phone, mine, when I look at Settings/Battery/Battery Usage BD is around 2%, on the problem phone, another family member's, it's at anywhere from 27-33%. This only started fairly recently, within the last 1-2 weeks.. I've already…
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Bitdefender Internet Security possible FALSE POSITIVE?
HP ENVY x360 Convertable 13=bd0xxx Win 11 Home, Version 10.0.22631 Build 22631 x64-Based PC, 4Core 8 Logical Proc 16.0 GB ram Virus Total comes up with a single hit for Bitdefender Internet Security. The hit was initially revealed by Microsoft SysInternals Process Explorer as 1/72 and identified (online) by Antiy-AVL as…
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VPN is recommended in Central
Hello, Why is Bitdefender Premium VPN recommended to me under My Offers in Central, even though I have Bitdefender Premium Security Plus? Greetings
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I love these spammers!
These spammers seem eager to be my friends, always trying to decide what's best for me without making me check anything myself. One even offered me Norton. How thoughtful! Regards
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Parental control cannot block Facebook, instagram
Hello, I set up parental controls to block Facebook and Instagram, but I can still access them on my device. Can someone help me resolve this issue?
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Reinstallare bitdefender dopo ripristino.
Salve, ho da poco installato bitdefender sul mio sistema W.7 dove il precedente antivirus non poteva più essere operativo. Dopo pochi giorni mi sono cambiate le caratteristiche visive delle finestre e altro del desktop. Ho deciso di ripristinare il sistema alla prima data disponibile che era precedente alla sua…
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A lot of websites blocked when using VPN
It's few days that I find this new strange behaviour: when vpn is connected, it's impossible to use multiple websites. I changed server location several times but nothing changes. To check, while VPN connected, I made also the ping control using cmd... they're all blocked. If I disconnect the VPN, they normally work. Never…
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This APP is CRAP
worked fine until iOS 18…now will not recognize account. Technical help was not helpful as still not working. Tech told me to uninstall APP…no fix. Waiting for a call back….USELESS GARBAGE!
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AI Behavioral Firewall
My proposal for Bitdefender's product line is to introduce an AI-powered Behavioral Firewall. This feature would use machine learning to analyze and predict the behavior of all connected devices in a network, identifying anomalies that suggest malicious activity. By learning from real-time interactions and comparing them…
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Updated my Macs to 15.0.1 and now both Macs show Bitdefender expired
I Updated my Macs to 15.0.1 and now both Macs show Bitdefender expired. I tried to reinstall and disable/enable full disk access but to no avail. My Macs: M1 Pro MacBook Pro and M1 Mac mini Please advise. It was working fine on Mac OS 15.0 but after updating to Mac OS 15.0.1 and it stopped working.
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How do I remove all passwords.
Surely there is a better way to remove passwords in bulk instead of one at a time and going around circles trying to find an answer
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Mozilla Thunderbird is not working when I acivate Bitdefender VPN
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VPN destroys itself
Hi, When I install VPN, it works great at first. After restarting the computer, it breaks. The UI is very slow and takes forever. I can't establish a connection either. I also noticed that I no longer have the TAP-Windows Adapter. I've already tried reinstalling it, but to no avail. I have the same problem on two different…
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Installation of all devices not working using the email send link
I have my i phone 6 protected I couldnt get my laptop protected by email it scrambled so had to log in on the comp to download direct Similarly my ipad just pixelates and it forces you to get the app ( ios13 running ) Similarly my wifes Iphone 5 s Similarly my Ipad mini Do I just take each and login as the original and…
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INNOVATOR'S QUEST - IDEA
Unified Zero-Trust cross platform VPN with Identity Validation: One layer above traditional VPNs, implementing a zero-trust model that integrates multi-factor authentication (MFA) and dynamic identity verification based on user behavior, location, government entities and location data from personnal platforms like Google,…
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VPN Split Tunnel Home Network
WINDOWS 10: Setting: Local Network "Allow access to devices on local network." set ON. I can't access my home server folders, printers, etc. I don't see a way to fix this using split tunneling. Whitelist home IP's? Thanks for the help.
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BitDefender Not Compatible With Windows 11 24H2
Hi, I keep being disconnected with the host. The current installation package in the cloud portal isn't compatible with Windows 11 24H2. The smaller download package and the epskit x64 abort with the same result. Its ridiculous there's no fix to the issue.
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Bitdefender causing my ip to be blocked
Hi, I installed Total Security on my windows laptop and apple phone, since I did my website and emails keep going offline because my ip keeps being blocked by my hosting company. I have gone through everything it could be with my hosting - siteground - and the only thing left is bitdefender which is when this all started.…
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Why Digital Identity Protection service to scan the email inbox doesn't works for outlook?
I have been having difficulty connecting my Outlook account to the Bitdefender Digital Identity Protection feature to scan received emails for some time now... I have already opened a ticket with support asking about it, unfortunately I have not received a satisfactory answer at the moment, in fact they only replied that…
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Bitdefender not running system scan at startup
I recently installed Bitdefender after the recent Kaspersky disaster. I set Bitdefender to run a system scan at startup, but it doesn't run. What am I missing?
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password for update interval
hello the problem i have is when i try to change the interval from 12h to 6h for updates in bitdefender settings, i am asked for a password, when i enter my bitdefender account password it doesn't work
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is bitdefender stopping apple mail forwarded by rule from being executed?
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download and installation
after formatting my pc, i can not download bitdefender and install it anymore, i`m having my code not up to a month. How can i download the software and install it again?
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Website all of a sudden blocked
I got this message on a website that I use and is known to be legit. Error 16 Blocked by our Security Service.
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Internet connection errors - windows 11 since august
Since the updates in august, I have structural issues to connect the internet with my laptop. The issues variate from permanent connection error to a delay of a few minutes. It also occurs in different networks (home, work) It happens by different browsers ( Edge, Chrome, Firefox). Reinstall of the browsers didn't solved…
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UI: Resizable Window + Make text size bigger and more
This feature request was posted 12 years ago: https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/30538/resizable-interface It makes sense. Bitdefender's interface accessibility is terrible and poorly designed. I've been using this product since 2013 and there's little to no improvement in UI and UX design. The texts are too…