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The Secret Santa Scam - Your Holiday Generosity Could Cost You
As the holiday season approaches, many look forward to gift exchanges and the spirit of giving. While Secret Santa traditions are meant to bring joy to friends, families, and workplaces, scammers have found ways to exploit this festive activity. A relatively old scam, often circulating on social media, is turning a beloved…
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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 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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Driving Cybersecurity Awareness: Bitdefender’s Immersive Booth at the Las Vegas GP
During the Las Vegas Grand Prix, held from November 21 to 23, Bitdefender enhanced the event with a dynamic activation booth that captivated attendees and showcased the company's commitment to cybersecurity in the fast-paced world of the highest class of single-seater racing. Bitdefender's booth was built inside the track,…
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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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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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Weekly offline update
Hi, In this post : There is a link under "Update Bitdefender's Threat definition offline" it's down now and showing 404 error. what is the new link for downloading offline update?
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This product is not available for this platform message Android
I have a Total Security subscription which includes Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. I had Bitdefender installed on my old Android tablet a Lenovo M10 and I've recently purchased a new Android tablet a Lenovo P12 but when I try to download it from my Bitdefender Central account I get the message This product is not available…
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Complete Disable
How can I completely disable all Bitdefender protections?
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Any insights how to solve this error? I cannot setup email protection for an Outlook email address.
Every time that I attempt to set up email protection for my Outlook email account, I receive the following error: I've tried restarting but nothing helps.
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FOSS software being marked as malware/pua, false positive submission system doesn't work
I noticed Bitdefender Free detects "Angry IP Scanner" as some hack tool/PUA with a frightening looking name so I wanted to submit false positive. The page: https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/29358/ doesn't function at all. I even added the pointless screenshot. My bug report to Angry IP Scanner repo issues…
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Today 7/12/2024 VPN time out
VPN stopped working today on both my PC and Android, comes up with time out , if it tries to connects, failing to connect. Is this a known problem today with other users? Tried all the suggestion fixes to know avail.
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Is this a SCAM? Online Chat 16Dec2024
I just received an email from bitdefender@hello.bitdefender.com inviting me to participate in an online chat the week of December 16th, 2024 to share thoughts on the new digital experience on which BitDefender is working. As compensation for participating, they will deposit $70 in my PayPal account. The website to sign up…
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having lots of trouble installing new Total Security
After much trouble I was able to get the VPN and Total Security to install but several attemps at getting the SecurePass to work have failed. It says it is installed and I have the extention but it still doesn't show as operational. I can continue to use pen and paper I suppose.
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How to disable scanning Recycle Bin of portable drive
I asked this before and thought that the instructions I received fixed it. But, it didn't. The next time I plugged in the portable WD My Passport drive, Bitdefender began scanning the recycle bin of the portable drive. Following is a screen capture of the settings to turn off the scanning of the recycle bin of the portable…
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Something went wrong We couldn't complete the activation flow. Please start again
cant validate installation of email or password protection
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Email protection error
We couldn't complete the activation flow. Please start again.
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Media Auto run
The Media Auto Run is turning on automatically , it's doing the same even i reinstalled windows & the bitdefender product. Disabling it does not work more than few days , why?😱
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Not allowing shutdown just restarts
Running Windows 10 and installed bitdefender a few months ago. When I try to power of my PC it just restarts instead. This happened in the past and I had to reinstall. Why has this happened again after running for several months fine?
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Shutdown option for Full Scan
I'd like to see a 'Shutdown' tickbox to force a PC to shutdown after a Full Scan. Maybe another option to shutdown if no issues are found. Apologies if this has already been requested but I couldn't find anything similar after a quick search.
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Problems with startup of PC and browser.
Q1: "Updating encountered an error (error code: -1002, Could not resolve server). Please check your internet connection and try again." A second try succeeds. What is happening here? Q2: At PC startup and startup of Firefox browser with VPN off, when I try to connect to google it times out. Then same with mychart. Then if…
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cancel and then upgrade
I purchased Total Security on 09/09/24. I would like to upgrade to Ultimate Security, but I have 9 months left on Total. Can I cancel and get a refund and then buy Ultimate?? Or what's the best thing to do?? I don't want to wait 9 months to upgrade. Thank you for your help.
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Scan vpn I bought the complete
my device won’t scan or anything. Any bitdefender site I try to go on shows a blank screen. I just bought it
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Why was my email protection turned off on Bitdefender
Unbeknown to me, Bitdefender email protection was turned off on my Android phone. My email was hacked at Sydney airport and I received a flood of scam emails. I've since changed my email password and activated email protection on Bitdefender. My question is, How did I not get a warning that protection was off until the day…
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VPN is dropping IP address
My phone has been having the issue of the IP address being dropped or not assigned with new re-connection. Anyone else had this issue?
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OneDrive can no longer connect
Hi, for sometime now when I open Microsoft OneDrive app on my laptop if fails to connect to my Microsoft account. If I disable the Bitdefender advanced threat defence OneDrive works fine. As soon as I re-enable this, . I have added the Onedrive.exe to the exception list but I still can not access the one drive app. Please…
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Why is BD Password Manager to SecurePass upgrade so difficult.
It requests a new Master Password; it won't accept my previous 10-digit one & at 13 letters/numbers it says the Password is ''too short'' & at 14 it says ''not complex enough''. And if your password requirement is so complex how will we commit it to memory? Can I choose not to upgrade & stay with Password Manager which…
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Are There Any Upcoming UI Updates for Bitdefender Antivirus on Android?
I want to know if there are any upcoming updates or planned UI changes for the Bitdefender Antivirus Android version. Are there any redesigns upcoming next year? (2025)
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how to connect via chat/online to somebody from Bitdefender to help me...
How do I connect via chat online to someone from Bitdefender to help me?
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Scam Copilot
There really needs to be a way to disable the scam copilot. The constant popups are annoying.
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Bitdefender search advisor is still not working with Bing
Even with the "Open links in new tab" disabled, the search advisor does not work with Bing As mentioned in the article at this was being worked on but it's been a year now and yet the issue is not resolved
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Copilot doesn't work if VPN is connected
Whatever changes have been made, either by Bitdefender or Microsoft, I am now unable to launch or load Copilot is the VPN is connected.
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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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Someone really was almost deceived because of the text messages sent by this fake base station....😮
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Vpn should show Latency + Load on vpn servers
If VPN providers could display the load and latency of each virtual location, it would be much easier to select the optimal location for a faster connection, reducing the need for multiple connection attempts to different servers. i think cyber ghost vpn has this option.
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Bitdefender Secure Pass Remains Open Without Password Prompt
Dear Bitdefender Support Team, I am writing to report a concerning issue with Bitdefender Secure Pass. Despite enabling the "Do not remember me" option and setting a master password during installation, the application remains open without prompting for the master password. This behavior exposes my sensitive information to…