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New Steam scam ?
Got a message from a friend on Steam to visit a website that showed in the message as the original Steam Workshop site to upvote his friend's creation there. I opened the website/link thinking it would take me to the Steam workshop item, but it took to a weird website that just says content not available in my country, and…
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How to entirely disable pointless notifications like "Suspicious Connection Blocked"?
I've disabled pretty much all notification settings for Bitdefender on my computer. Yet still I keep getting notifications from it like "Suspicious Connection Blocked". Specifically I have the following settings disabled in BD Total Security app (on win11): -special offers -recommendation notifications And in Windows…
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Firewall shuts off
Recently, I have noticed that the firewall is no longer active in Total Security after Windows10 logon. I have read various posts on this issue and have made the required changes to the registry to prevent this from happening but to no avail. My program is up to date and otherwise functions normally. Suggestions?
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Security for malicious content on websites
Hello, I have Bitdefender Internet Security installed on my computer. Currently, two features namely Online Threat Prevention and Bitdefender Anti-Tracker addon are provided for secure browsing. Online Threat Prevention blocks complete websites which are dangerous and Bitdefender Anti-Tracker blocks trackers. But what…
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Disappearing from System Tray
On my Bitdefender Total Security, when I initially installed it, I would get several icons on my windows 11 system tray, for each scan being done, and then with the last one advising my system was safe. However, after a time, these icons no longer appeared in the system tray. I then uninstalled and re-installed it, then…
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Bitdefender high memory usage
First time trying Bitdefend total security, but I can't belive it takes so many memory and so many process. And update is very slow. I need a refund.
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scam link
Where I can report scam links
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https://www.farnsworth.org FALSE POSITIVE
Nothing wrong with this site. PLEASE FIX
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New User - error message sending emails
** Never mind, suddenly started to work. ** I have just purchased and installed Bitdefender Antivirus Plus. I use Microsoft Outlook 365. Right after I installed Bitdefender I tried to send/receive in Outlook. I can receive emails (so far) but I have two emails stuck in the Outbox. One has an attachment and the other does…
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I got tricked into scam. Please, can you help me
Hello. As I am really bad in understanding any technology/virus-linked-issues I will appreciate any advice which you can give me in this topic. I will try to explain the shortest I can what happened to me. I got tricked few days ago into scam on my laptop. I was browsing my google history as I was trying to get back to…
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Real-time Protection
I'm trying to play Farming Simulator 22 on Steam and it throws an error code. It says "Error: Can't read profile path." The way to fix this is by going into Windows security and adding the Farming Simulator 22 files into the “Control folder access”. But in order to do this you need Windows security real-time protection.…
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A few cons with Full Scan (and one pro)
Preamble I apparently went over the word limit (actually, the character limit) in drafting this, so I've split it into a few posts. Background Idly clicking around with my mouse on my computer (much like a monkey randomly banging on a keyboard hoping to produce a Shakespearean masterpiece), I happened to click on the…
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Is there any setting in Bitdefender Total Security that'd prevent mapped drives from being accessed?
Hi, I have been running Bitdefender Total Security on my desktop and laptop without issue but today my laptop is no longer able to access mapped drives on my desktop. The only thing changed was my Verizon 5G home internet equipment, I did not modify any Windows 10 or Bitdefender settings. At this moment my desktop is able…
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Error message in connection with Bitdefender
Got this error message on my PC. Never had this before. Ran troubleshoot and even ran it in safe mode. Did not work. Any help?
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Zoom Bad Image error code
Hi all, I've been using Zoom and Bitdefender together for over a year, but just the last few days have been pummeled with an error message from Bitdefender every time I try to start a Zoom meeting. Error Message: Zoom.exe - Bad image. The actual message says "Security\bdamsi[several numbers]antimalware_providers32.idl is…
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Firewall Not Working - Bitdefender Total Security/Build 27.0.18.96
Hello, After my update on Bitdefender, my firewall stopped working properly. Before, I would be able to see what apps were accessing the internet and now I only see when Bitdefender is accessing the internet. I opened Chrome, Mozilla and Brave internet browsers and none of them were shown in the "Application access" window…
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Turn Off Scan Encrypted Files?
Hi everyone, Every time I do a scan of my Windows partition, I get a pop-up about scanning encrypted files. This is getting a bit annoying. Is there any way to turn off such scanning in the settings? I am using Total Security. Cheers :)
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Disable archive size limit for scan
Hello I'd like to disable/ignore the maximum size limit for archives to be scanned during custom scan. I have a custom scan routine which needs to be run once a week. I will have new archives coming every week which will be around 20-30GB. So, I'd want them to be scanned thoroughly regardless of how large they are. Can…
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Online threat detection false positive?
I've been getting suddenly a lot of notifications that warn me "chrome.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an unmatching security certificate to d25lqe4mlyaln6.cloudfront.net.. We blocked the connection to keep your data safe since the used certificate was issued for a different web address than the targeted…
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Bitdefender firewall no longer works and it keeps turning off after the latest update
Hello, I just updated my Bitdefender to 27.0.16.87 version and it required me to restart my Windows 10 PC. After I did that, I noticed that the BD firewall toggle was off, so I turned it back on but still it didn't work. I tried to close BD and start it again, but the firewall still toggles itself off again. I checked…
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Bitdefender IS 27.0.16.86 on Windows 11: high mem usage after a couple of hours
Hi, as you can see from the picture below: Bitdefender has reache about 1GB of memory usage after a couple of hours that my desktop PC is running (Windows 11 22621.2070 with Bitdefender IS 27.0.16.86). I know that memory is used for normal operation as well as for cache mechanism that make Bitdefender absolutely light and…
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Hi, I am using the Bitdefender free edition and would like to know where .......
Hi, I am using the Bitdefender free edition and would like to know where can I see the threats found after the analysis and if Bidefender does eliminate them without asking . Other Protection software include some kind of quarantine section where you can see what the analisis found. Thanks in advance
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Brave Browser protection difference between Home and Enterprise products
Hello, I know Brave browser is officially not supported by Bitdefender. I tried Brave with Bitdefender Home products like BD TS ans BD Free and saw that Bitdefender is not decrypting HTTPS traffic on sites where it's supposed to. At the moment, I'm trialing Bitdefender Enterprise product in a VM. BEST Premium with EDR…
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Input-Output Errors
Hello there again everyone. I'm just curious what are these Input-Output Errors in the logs after I did a Full System Scan. Should I be worried about these? Thanks in advance for the answers.
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Munbyn Lable Converter App
When I try and install this application on Windows 10 64Bit BD sees it as a threat because they say its infected with "gen:varient.razy,540352" BD Then disinfects it and quarantines it and then deletes the app. I cannot install this SW because basically BD says its infected and will not let me. Is there a way to…
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Why not Home Protection for Linux?
Hello there I found out that home security protection was discontinued for Linux, and I don't know the reason, but it would be great if you bring it back. Nowadays, there are people that prefer to use Linux Desktop and they want to be protected.
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Service with Chinese letters in Task Manager
I am looking for some help to figure out what this is. Windows 10 Task Manager Services show me a process like this: 楗敳潂瑯獁楳瑳湡t The details are this: 㩃停潲牧浡䘠汩獥⠠㡸⤶坜獩履楗敳䌠牡㘳尵潂瑯楔敭攮數 I do not know whether it is a virus, a malware, a threat or just a misfit. I cannot find the file and cannot remove it from the process either. The…
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Bitdefender Internet Security Icon Is Greyed Out
I see this was addressed in 2016, but I am hoping for a more current response. When I right click on it, it shows "update now". I have done so several times without any changes. Left clicking opens the dashboard showing "you are safe", but when I click on "my account" my name is no longer there. It does show I have 600+…
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Can't find any results of recent full system scan which was interrupted by Windows Update
I did a full system scan that was still running after 15 hours last time I checked (last night). At that time there were over 90 resolved items. I think the scan was taking so long because it was apparently scanning everything I have up on Google Cloud. This morning I see that Windows 10 automatically updated and restarted…
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How to successfully Manage Exceptions?
Hello community, I need help because I could not successfully add an .exe file in the Manage Exceptions list. It keeps on quarantine-ing the file (after my Windows 10 restart) even though all exceptions are checked (Advanced Threat Defense, Online Threat Prevention and All Antivirus checks). Also, in the Quarantine…