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How To Temporarily Disable BitDefender
I am currently using the trial version of BD - deciding whether to switch permanently from Norton Utilities. One thing I noticed in BD is, there is no way to quickly/easily disable BD. In Norton 360, all I have to do is click the Norton icon in the system tray and choose from a number of options - disable protection for a…
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AV Vulnerability
There is malware out there that uses a "bloat trick" to fool all AV's into not detecting it as malware. They inflate the file to say 750 MB with about 150 KB of it is malware. The majority of the file is empty space. It is not detected and stopped by AV because of its size. Does Bitdefender have any plans to correct this…
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Windows Errors
Hello, keep getting notices from Windows that my antivirus needs to update and that they are out of date. When I go into settings, I see that Bitdefender is on something called "snoozed" but there are updates to load, but they won't load. I thought that Bitdefender took care of its own updates. Is this "snoozed" anything I…
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I set up a custom scan for d & E:. It always start c:\windows .. System etc ,Why?
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How can I add a Drive Letter for my USB Flash Drive to the Exceptions
I have a Flash Drive permanently plugged into my laptop, and it is always assigned D: Every time the Laptop is started, it goes into a full scan of the Flash Drive as a new device connected, when it is not new. I added D:\ to the exceptions but it still does a full scan. I can uncheck USB Flash Drives, but then that…
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Possible ransomware attack?
One of my PCs is behaving very oddly. I've disconnected it from the internet for now. The problem is that all browsers refuse to connect to most but not all web sites. I saw lots of references to a file called the-real-index (in notepad it's full of garbage), made me wonder if its ransomware in progress. Any ideas where to…
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suspicious notification to install "Installation file" from "Bitifender SRL" every time I start up
I have been getting this notification for about a week every time I start up my computer. It is asking me to install "Installation File" or installer.exe "from" Bitifender SRL on my computer. When I tried to go to the location of the file, it didn't exist, even when I turned hidden files on. Of course I denied the action…
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Web Protection doesn't work when Windscribe VPN extension is enabled
So I have the Windscribe Extension installed on Firefox. The free version has 2 GB for free. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/windscribe/ After the extension activates, I mean connects to a location, and I visit malicious sites that are included in Bitdefender's database, Bitdefender doesn't block them. It's…
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Hi All, My son's pc got Trojan.MSILZilla.19190 as detected by BitDefender system full scan and Goo
Hi All, My son's pc got Trojan.MSILZilla.19190 as detected by BitDefender system full scan and Google will not allow use of his email until the malware is cleaned. Do u know any service to clean above? Missing his roblox & fortnite games Many Thanks
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BitDefender Firewall Feature breaks Hyper-V Switch
Greetings, no matter what I've done, I've been unable to get Bitdefender to work with the Default Hyper-V (Or any other "Private" Hyper-V) Switch for that matter. I've had to disable the product's firewall. Bridging the connection works, however this is ill suited for cases where I need to do large file transfers between…
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Is it normal for Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool to just run randomly?
Just got a notification from glasswire that it started running/hopped on the web. I know it itself isn't malware, but what is it doing? Removing malware? I'm pretty sure I don't have any malware. I just checked and turns out windows is installing an update- could that be why?
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I’m still getting hacked they hacked my back my location everything idk what to do
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Security
So every time after i boot up my pc after a certain amount of time windows cmd pops up and then immediately closes after like a second because bitdefender stops it from executing. Its called Heur.BZC.ZFV.Pantera.50.E0575688 but i already did a full system scan and it finds no threats but it keeps happening. How do i get…
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Why do i get I/O Errors only in Rescue Environment ?
So i have Bitdefender total security and never had any issues with it. I do Systems Scans pretty regularly and never get reports of any problems ( no infections, no input-output errors, etc ). I recently activated the rescue environment to scan my system and to test this feature. This scan also reported that my System is…
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Errors Loading Pages After Installing BitDefender
Seems like every time I switch from the antivirus that came on my computer to any free antivirus including Avast and BitDefender, I end up getting "page could not load" much more often than before I switched. Is there any way to fix this besides restoring my computer to a point before I switched antiviruses (which, so far,…
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Another Nicehash post, Bitdefender exclusion are useless.
How can I trust an antivirus software if the exclusion doesn't work? What else doesn't work? I don't care about what Bitdefender think of crypto, I was about to paid for 3 years on a family plan, I'm glad I use the free trials, or I would have been rip-off. I spent 3 hours trying to add exclusion to be able to reinstall…
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Problems with blocked internet connection
I get this message all the time from Bitdefender firefox.exe hat versucht, auf Grundlage eines abgelaufenen Zertifikats eine Verbindung mit adfdsaf.ow.truesteamachievements.com aufzubauen English: firefox.exe attempted to connect to adfdsaf.ow.truesteamachievements.com based on an expired certificate and that it has been…
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Infected Web Page
Hi guys I have this problem for 1 week. I tryed few solutions I found on forum but nothing helped. I am still geting this spam
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how to know if I wasn't infected with a boot code
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Moved: Der Spiegel Says Telegram Gave User Data to German Police in Fight against Terrorism, Child …
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Turn off pop up notifications
I like that Bitdefender has protected me but the constant pop up notifications are annoying. Can I control them?
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USB-drive scanned ??
Does anyone know if Bitdefender scans the USB-drive automatically when connected to the laptop? I do not see any activity.. I looked into Settings but do not see any possibility.
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How do I get rid of poshukach.com search engine?
Hi, I have just installed Bitdefender and run a full scan (Windows 10). I still get the poshukach.com search engine (Chrome) when I first load a page. Nor sure why this has not been detected and does anyone have some adive on how to remove? Thanks
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What is New Account Fraud, and how to prevent it
Cybercriminals wage social engineering attacks against organizations and individuals to steal information, such as names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers, and commit fraud on a large scale. In new account fraud, criminals open new bank, loan or credit accounts using stolen or synthetic identities, leaving you…
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Moved: Child accessing vpn
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Moved: Problems with content control
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DotNet
Hi i keep getting this DotNet tries to load a potentially malisious resource and was blocked. No matter how many scans i do nothing changes. Ive seen on the web that its a problem with the software and windows? What can fix this ?
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Does BitDefender upload scanned files for themselves?
When BitDefender scans files on a computer, does it also upload them to their cloud and save a copy of them for themselves?
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Need a way to disable Bitdefender at next boot with one click
The BD link to temporarily turn itself off (why can't I post a BD link???) is really difficult to do, and then one must remember all the settings to undo it. I was unable to update Parallels Tools on a Virtual Machine, and it was Bitdefender causing this. It is impossible to uncheck the BD services in msconfig!! to turn…
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"Suspicious connection blocked" Pop up
I started receiving popup window saying "Suspicious connection blocked" for the last 2 weeks. It is coming so frequent (30 times in one hour) that affected my workflow on computer. when I opened its details the following massage was there: {chrome.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an unmatching security…