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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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Global Investment Scam Network Using Meta Ads
Bitdefender Labs recently uncovered a large-scale global investment scam network operating through paid ads on Meta platforms like Facebook and Instagram. If you’ve ever seen a sponsored post claiming a celebrity discovered a “secret investment platform” or a shocking financial breakthrough, this research shows how such…
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Insights from Bitdefender - What does it take to secure today’s Content Creators?
In today’s digital landscape, content creators and influencers are more vulnerable than ever to cyber threats that can jeopardize years of hard work, reputation, and income. Recognizing this challenge, Bitdefender recently unveiled Security for Creators — the industry’s first cybersecurity solution tailored specifically…
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Bitdefender Discounts: Save on Premium VPN, SecurePass and Identity Protection
We’re excited to launch a community–focused campaign with up to 50% off Premium VPN, SecurePass, and Digital Identity Protection. Whether you're browsing on public Wi-Fi, managing dozens of passwords, or wondering if your personal data has been exposed online, these tools are designed to give you more control, more…
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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 admin @Alexandru_BD, along with moderators @fedor, @Nunzio77, @Gjoksi, and @Flexx, have the…
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Bitdefender Free Handy Tools
Some of Bitdefender Latest Handy Tools You Should Check Out. Bitdefender has released several useful tools recently that can help users stay safer online. Below are a few worth bookmarking: 1) Bitdefender Scamio: https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/consumer/scamio Bitdefender Scamio is the next-gen AI chatbot created and…
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Updates on Frequently Requested Bitdefender Products & Features
Dear Bitdefender Community Members, Over the past months, we’ve noticed a growing number of requests and discussions regarding the introduction or return of various Bitdefender products and features. As these topics continue to appear across multiple threads, this post serves as an official reference and consolidated…
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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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Possible Hacking Issue With BitDefender
Hello, I have noticed over the past 6 months that BitDefender keeps disabling automatic updates. I'm usually alerted to this fact, after Windows Defender tells me that something is wrong with BitDefender. When I look at BitDefender's update settings, I always see that the Automatic Update and Silent Update settings are…
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False Data Breach on My Home Page - Generated by Identity Theft Protection
Thurs. 03/19/26 — Hi; I'm writing as a recent convert to Bitdefender from Norton 360. I installed it last Saturday [3/14/26]. By the following Wednesday [yesterday], I began to get a red notice on the app's Home page that I had a 'data breach.' Of course, I was alarmed and followed the link. Whereas previously, the…
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After Bitdefender Build 27.0.57.313 Update Windows startup is lagging
Well what ever this update has, it messed up the start up again for windows 11. Windows build 25H2 26200.8039 Thanks in advance.
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Stop your pop ups?
I have done everything I can find to get rid of your annoying AF pop ups at the bottom right of my screen. Your software ignores all of those settings and is STILL irritating as all f*ck. You people need a 'silent running' feature. If all your program is going to do is ignore my preferences on MY device, I will not renew…
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Bitdefender blocks google and maps, no VPN
Hi, I start getting problems with google maps loading forever or at all. Google search many times dont load at all. I dont use VPN, tried several tips on turning off things in settings and no success. Yesterday, I add Brave to firewall rules and added google maps in online threat prevention. After this it worked great, no…
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BD continually disables WiFi
This is getting very annoying. BD continually disables my WiFi, and does not save the key so I have to type it in every 15-30min. I've set it as both my office network and not my office network with no difference in outcome. I have multiple desktops and laptops running BD with no issues, just this new laptop is having…
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Claude Desktop MCP Servers - Triggering Disinfection
I am using Claude Desktop and have a few MCP servers that have access to my browser and desktop. Every time the MCP server performs a function (such as editing a file on my computer or similar 'write/update' activities, Bitdefender is treating this as a threat and it deletes the MCP server exe or related files. How can I…
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After the latest update auto installed 100% the other day I no longer see the small red B logo in the hidden icons on task bar?
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Does the Bitdefender Rescue Environment scan support dynamic disks?
On one of my PCs (which has a dynamic system disk, as well as a dynamic data disk), the Rescue Environment scan does not run. After selecting Restart System to run the scan, it boots up to a screen to select the appropriate keyboard language. When US is selected, it then presents a Windows recovery-type screen, which has…
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My Bitdefender on My Cell phone is not working
I just got this very first cell phone ever & I went to put a security camera onto it i scanned the code it downloaded the app then said it needed to be upgraded so I did that then all of a sudden i have over 200 infected viruses on My cell phone & Bit Defender is not doing a damn thing. I know nothing of this stuff I can't…
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Bitdefender Virtual Disk - need an option to disable
Hi, The Bitdefender Virtual Disk is causing me a ton of issues with system checks for online certifications, I’ve also emailed support about this. The system checks carried out by the online test provider are flagging my laptop as being a virtual machine due to the vhd that bitdefender has created, and I cannot enter the…
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I reverted to the previous version of Antivirus and went to Central hoping it would auto install me back to the latest version
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Computer continues to freeze on boot
Good evening. I have three computers running Bitdefender, and all three have the latest version of the antivirus. The problem is that on one of them, even though it already has the latest version of the antivirus (27.0.57.313), it keeps freezing when Windows starts up. What I’ve already tried: I’ve even tried reinstalling…
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Deleting Spam/Phishing Email off the server when found.
Hello, I am having an issue with Phishing emails coming to one of my email accounts. Bitdefender catches and marks it and moves it to my deleted folder on my PC which is awesome. I have 4 other devices that I get email on and with the email being left on the server, I still get those emails on those devices. I am wondering…
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Microsoft's "Mouse Without Borders" software.
Hello, I am new to this community and have a question about the VPN. I can enable it, but at my office I work on 3 desktop PCs with 1 keyboard and 1 mouse using Microsoft's "Mouse Without Borders" software. As soon as I enable the VPN, I encounter problems where I can no longer navigate between the 3 PCs. I have already…
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Invalidated security certificate when using Outlook via gmail
I am getting an invalid security certificate and have been getting it a while.. This morning for one article I found said I had malware and it needed to be removed. CertMgr > certificates > Untrusted Certificates and delete the certificate. Then uninstall and reinstall Bitdefender.. Because it wouldn't uninstall, I had to…
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JAVA ROOTKIT VULNERABILITY "MOD MINECRAFT"
Greetings! Im a Bitdfender user for years, and Im from Brazil. Im writing this post to report a vulnerability error in Bitdfender detection system: I was sent a Java file that pretended to be a Minecraft mod, but it was actually a rootkit virus... The problem is this: Before running the test, we checked with Bitdefender,…
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Feedback to add features to Bitdefender
Add these features to Windows PC:- 1. Provide an option to add suspected files to quarantine manually. So that user can add files to quarantine manually. This feature is helpful when a file is malicious but not detected by Bitdefender. 2. Provide web protection for Brave browser over Windows PC. 3. Please introduce 2…
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sbiedll.dll from Sandboxie Plus at c:\program files\sandboxie-plus\sbiedll.dll false positive?
Please check if this a false positive as I have checked the signature and all, and have found it a legitimate file. The file path is: c:\program files\sandboxie-plus\sbiedll.dll
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Can't receive regular Community newsletter
Hi - using Win 11 and Outlook classic: When I click on the heading I get a very quick look at the contents and immediately they disappear (in the preview window). If I click on "view in browser", it take me to an "Internet Explorer" window which just has jibberish. Any ideas??
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gravityzone VA active policy direct overwrites.
Hi! Problem with policy assignment for one PC. It always goes back to default. Problem: 1. one of pc show "Applicable policies": Default and Custom. 2. Active policy on this pc shows: Default policy, assignment Direct, type: devices. Status 1. ad sync pc names and structure. 2. assigned custom policy to structure. 3. no…
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Question about Secure Pass upgrade
I got an e-mail today that I must upgrade to Secure Pass by June 12th. When reading about Secure Pass I saw this disturbing line: Web Access: Manage passwords from any browser using a convenient web client. Am I to understand that Secure Pass is going to store all of my passwords in the cloud? This is…. an insane security…
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SecurePass in SafePay now says "incorrect pasword"
From one day to the next, SafePay cannot open SecurePass (unblock) because now the password to unblock de vault is not recognized; in Chrome is running smoothly. This happened a couple of months after I upgrade from Windows 10 to WIndows 11. I already tried changing the vault password; also disable and enable the "use…
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32MB Virtual Disk named Bitdefender
Hi all, I have just noticed a small 32MB Virtual Disk named Bitdefender virtual disk. Not much info found here or while searching online. I am running the latest version of Total security on Windows 11 Pro. I have uninstalled and reinstalled but this VD still returns. Whats it used for?
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Republican Websites Have Certificates that Don't Match
I receive many e-mails from republican politicians and the party and ask me to view their website. When I click, I'm stopped by BitDefender and get message that their certificates don't match. Is this really true? I can't believe that all these websites are screwed up.
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BD Total Security is logging out from my account after the last update on Windows 11
Hello, After the last update today, the BD total security icon on my taskbar was greyed and when I hover over it it said I must connect to activate. When I go on the app under my account, there is none showing, in Central it says my computer is protected, though, subscription still ok and when I am logging again, from the…
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How do I unblock a series of phone numbers eg 1234?????
I have had several hospital calls from different numbers blocked. The only solution I have found is to switch off Call Blocking. Help would be appreciated.
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Bitdefender Subscription Expired
I supposed to have 159 days of my Bitdefender Subscription, but the program says it's expired. What is going on?
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Bitdefender Ultimate Security Scam Protection doesn't show verified links
The AI powered scam protection window of BD ultimate on windows shows per last month : "256 mails verified" "0 links verified" "0 possible phishing" While on my android it shows: "256 mails verified" "27,4K links verified" "2 possible phishing" In the past first it showed on windows also K links and later 0 links; support…
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Active Directory Sensor Integration issue
I have set up a Windows server as an Active Directory Integrator in Bitdefender GravityZone. The EDR Sensor is active on that server, it is joined to the domain, and I have made the necessary Group Policy changes as specified in the documentation…