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The place where adding malwarebytes will hold an advantage will be for pup/ pua detection & malicious registries cleaning. Bitdefender is average in handling these kind of things. I am personally using BIS 2021 with malwarebytes free, doing weekly scans with malwarebytes free, no need of buying premium.

Regards

Flex

(Bitdefender beta tester 2019/ 2020)

Bitdefender essentially blocks access to XBox live services by stopping a necessary windows service required for XBox connectivity. It's not a nice to have thing, it's a matter of the product preventing access to an application that users depend on for multiplayer capabilities. Hello /index iMessage on PC

Needless to say my subscription is becoming due in another month and I will after 6 years be investigating and research reviews by experts on all products and be moving to a product that is better or equal to BD due to their decision to drop the widget.

And the forced upgrade just kicked in. Now I'm mad. WE WANT THE WIDGET BACK!

I loved the Security Widget - Please bring it back!!!

HI Flex,

I read your response very carefully (and I think everyone who cares about this feature should) because of the following simple points:

1. The Security Widget has been a part of BD Total Security for many years now, so while I may not be a "developer" , when I hear you say "with any new feature comes more consumption of resources" and they "might consider the introduction of the widget" , well all I can do is shake my head in disbelief since it is NOT a new feature. It's something that was a selling point of BD TS for many years and was removed. And when you mention it requires a "total rewrite of the software code" ? Seriously? It was already a part of BD TS. Why in the world would it take a total re-write, or better yet, why was it removed at all? Did it require a total re-write of the code to remove one of the best features of Total Security?
2. This is the year 2020. Do you really think that the target market for a product like BitDefender TOTAL SECURITY are users with low-end systems? BD TS 2020 with the Security Widget works / runs fine on even systems that I've been managing for 5+ years that have older tech such as standard HDD's and Core i3 CPU's, so it's logical that users who are smart enough to use a good quality security suite will have systems that can handle it with no problem. With older OS's reaching EOL, even Windows 7, combined with the fact that SSD's have become part of "every day consumer" level systems and the fact that anyone with a modern OS such as Windows 10 clearly has a system that can handle it, once again all I can do is shake my head in disbelief over that viewpoint. (Not to mention, users running low-end systems are the type who need a feature like the Security Widget the most, otherwise they could just stick with the inferior security product that comes shipped / built-into their systems already).
3. "Remove things that aren't of any use"?? Please tell me how the Security Widget is not of any use.

Oh well... the pattern and direction of BD Total Security changes isn't heading in the right direction in my opinion and the opinions of many users that I assist with their maintenance and whom I've recommended the product to / have been using it for many years now. Your response tells me that this appeal to bring back a feature that we've come to rely on and IS of great use & purpose to many of us is pretty much just going to get swept under the carpet and logic will end up there with it.

If BitDefender is now taking the approach of targeting a high-end product such as Total Security to low-end system users speaks volumes and the writing is now on the proverbial wall. Very sad to see what I've considered a superior product for so many years now showing signs of going the way of inferior products / business models. Major bummer :-(

Hello,

Yes, the one has been deleted but we can still change this sign this petition

https://www.mesopinions.com/petition/autres/reintroduction-widget-bitdefender/109755

Also write very often to support to complain about the withdrawal, it can shake things up