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Say hello to the new Antivirus Free for Windows!
Even though Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition has been withdrawn at the end of December 2021, the concept of providing a free solution and encourage people to protect themselves against the cyber threats out there never ceased to exist. The previous version of Bitdefender Antivirus Free was running on old system…
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Email protection settings
I'm using Thunderbird 102.10.0 32bit as my email client. I have multiple email accounts setup in Thunderbird. All are IMAP with the exception of one account set up as POP. The POP gmail account is having problems while Bitdefender is running and scanning emails. Any time I check for new messages or click on a message,…
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Bitdefender Free (new version) - suggested improvements
I have recently been using Bitdefender Free (new version) and I have noticed that some malicious applications, not recognized by the antivirus definitions, were blocked by the behavioral analysis but after the block they were not quarantined but left on the desktop. After the definitions were updated, they were recognized…
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Fake free protection expired warning.
Today this warning appeared to me informing me that my subscription to Bitdefender Free has expired .... 😂😂 But why do you use these marketing techniques to fool your users and switch to the paid version ??? !!! 🤨 My Bitdefender Free is still fully active ...😏 I didn't think you would start these popups too ...😔😕 If a user…
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Update from v. 26.0.18 to v. 26.0.23
Product was automatically updated on August 4. Since then I get "TrustedInstaller.exe" showing up every time I start up the computer, taking a good chunk of CPU resources, without any update needed/performed. It stays on for about 5 minutes. Also since the update, I noticed "BD Test Engines Init" ("testinitsigs.exe")…
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Windows 7 firewall
Bitdefender Antivirus free is installed on two Windows 7 HP laptops and is working very well. There is no other installed security software. I have disabled Windows Firewall. Is this OK or should it be enabled? Thank you.
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Bitdefender Free - RAM
With the new version of Bitdefender Free I noticed that in my laptop the RAM is on average about 100/150 Mb, sometimes it stays at a maximum of 250/300 Mb and then goes down. However it does not seem to impact the performance of my laptop which is older than 15 years ... 😉🙂
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Bitdefender Free - Blocks malware but doesn't always quarantine it.
I did a test with this ransoware: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/cd1bb0b84729b272e28a48cdfc22ef1f2577e4a1779a9fe871e54cf71707ded8/detection On Virus Total it is stated that Bitdefender Free recognizes it. On my PC if I do a scan it is not detected as malware. If I launch it it is blocked and therefore recognized as a…
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Banking Notification in Bitdefender Antivirus Free - Is there any way to switch it off?
I have been trying to prevent this specific pop-up ad from reappearing in Bitdefender Antivirus Free. I am using a fresh reinstallation on Windows 10. It occurs whenever you access a banking website and it seems to be analogous to the notification prompting to user to use SafePay in the full versions of Bitdefender. From…
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Bitdefender virtual disk
Even after searching and seeing to update to the newest version of the Free version, after awhile the virtual disk is popping it's useless self up again. Is there an actual solution to this? It does seem like it showed up after installing the newest version of VirtualBox. I will uninstall both, then reinstall Bitdefender…
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Bitdefender free and RAT (Remote Access Trojan)
Does Bitdefender Free protect me against RATs as they can be quite sneaky and we would never know if it's in the system.
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antivirus
do antivirus software's consumes too much performance form the pc?
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Anyone know what to do about Webview error in Bitdefender Main when Activating?
Removed free version and re-installed but am left with blank BD Main window and the following error after clicking the sign in button. Error dialog is titled "Rundll". Error is "Error in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeWebView\Application\130.0.2849.56\msedgewebview2.exe Missing entry: —embedded-browser-webview=1" My…
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FTP transfer keeps restarting
Hi, Since July 2024 I experience a problem with my FTP uploads to my Synology NAS. It seems to go super fast +300MB/s (in my case it should be 12MB/s), but then it restarts several times. I found one thread on the internet: https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/1/post/188720 but no solution. I use Bitdefender Antivirus…
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How do I get Bitdefender Free to play nice with Brave browser?
Since installing Bitdefender Free, my Brave browser crashes (disappears) after a minute or so. No such problem with Firefox. Windows 10 desktop. Never experienced this problem with Kaspersky Free. Problem persists even after reinstalling Bitdefender Free.
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Problem Restoring Quarantined FP's
Over the time that I've been using Bitdefender Free it has found and quarantined several FPs. Every time I attempt to restore an FP Bitdefender Free reports "Failed to find the specified path" (see example below)! So how do I go about restoring a quarantined FP?
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What should I do?
I just got a notification on my pc on startup by Bitdefender online threat prevention. What should I do?
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Encrypted web scan remembering sites with bad certs after the cert is fixed?
Using BitDefender Antivirus Free 27.0.30.136 for Windows 11. I operate websites and for some of them I manually issue SSL using LetsEncrypt. One time recently I published the SSL artefacts for Site A when configuring the SSL for Site B. When verifying the SSL for Site B, my Bitdefender's Encrypted Web Scan rightly blocked…
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BD Antivirus Free with Microsoft Defender?
Hello. Short question: Will this work/is it meant to work in addition to Microsoft Defender or instead of? Thanks in advance for your help.
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Issue Report with Bitdefender Free Antivirus v26.0.27.90
I didn't know where to properly report an issue. Please excuse me if this is the incorrect channel. I had been using BitDefender for about 2 years without an issue. A few days ago I started noticing issues with my PC (Windows 8.1, non-standard setup: Users, ProgramData on D:, Programs on F:). The symptoms were: apparent…
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Latest Bitdefender (27-Nov-23) Blocks AutoHotkey Compilation
It seems a false positive is blocking ahk2exe from compiling Autohotkey scripts
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How can I change the auto disinfection to a manual process?
I just installed Bitdefender Free and during the first scan it deleted a lot of good files (e.g. java ****** files I created while learning from a Udemy tutorial). I searched in the Settings for an option to change to a user prompt disinfection after I review the scan results, but I can't find one. I keep seeing people…
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Computer freezing when launching Diablo 4
Windows 11 64bit Tl;DR, BitDefender(BD) free, Battle.Net(BN), Diablo 4(D4) 1 - BD and BN worked fine for months before installing D4. 2 - D4 froze or soft locked the PC when launching the application. 3 - D4 launches and does not freeze / soft locks the PC with BD uninstalled. 4 - After installing BD, BN and D4 now have…
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Is BD Antivirus Free actually free or not?
I used BD Free for a few years before the announcement about a year ago that it was no longer being offered. I switched around a few other free offerings but was never particularly satisfied with any of them. About a month ago, while looking for another package to use, I saw that a number of websites were still…
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Can't Update Bitdefender Antivirus Free Through Auto Update. Any Suggestions?
I can't update bitdefender through auto update, i've reinstall windows, changed DNS, even do the troubleshoot on the bitdefender website, i've tried ping the server that i've found on enterprise troubleshoot website(https://update-cloud.2d585.cdn.bitdefender.net/,which i got could not find host) and…
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BD Antivirus Free Can't Delete Threats. Any Suggestions?
After scanning for viruses, there are many dangers. i selected "Delete" but this didn't work. I ran virus scan again and it still shows the threats. but when I select "Appropriate action" the threats are removed.
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What Is The Meaning Of The Red "x" On The Online Threat Prevention Icon In BD Antivirus Free?
Dear Sir/Madam, How's things?, My question for you is i have installed your free antivirus and after clicking on the protection and after that i noticed the online threat protection has an x on the icon and couldn't change it to a green tick?, and don't know if the red x is suppose to be there or is the x remove if I moved…
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Strange Build Of Bitdefender Antivirus Free 26.1000.32.52. Any Ideas?
Hello! Strange version of Bitdefender Free - Build 26.1000.32.52. Signatures are updated without problems. Any ideas because after reinstalling from the account it comes back to the same version! Thanks! Windows 10 Home/64 bit
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BitDefender Traffic Light - New version released
Hello, I saw that on July 28 the new version of the Bitdefender Traffic Light extension (3.2.0) was released. Can you have some info about the improvements? Thank you.
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Disabled Add exception button
Hi, I'm using BF Free (just updated) and I have noticed that I can't add exceptions from scan. In previous version, it was possible to add exceptions. Please advice Thanks