I am running in Auto Pilot and Autoscan modes; As a consequence, I normally never open the Security Center.
However, I noticed that some updates require a reboot, and may have been for several days.
The reboots are set to Postponed in my settings, and this is as should be because I don't want to lose any work or interrupt any task.
1) Can you make this particular alert visible in the Notification icon?
Maybe change the color to orange like when there is a normal alert, and change the tooltip from "You are in Auto Pilot Mode" to "A computer reboot is required for the Bitdefender update to take effect" or something.
2) When there is already one red unread "Reboot required" event, do NOT add hundreds of events every few minutes.
There should be only one red unread such event at most.
If the customer read the event but did not take action, by all means generate a new unread event, but it's the same event, not hundreds of different events that require rebooting every few minutes. Just the one red event clearly appears in red in the Events page's left pane, so the user can't miss it even if there is only one.
So many events also hide the real events from different categories. All you see is "99+" and you may think it's all the reboot required events that will get fixed when you'll reboot at the end of the day, but there might actually be other more important events that require your immediate attention, and you'll never know until you actually open the Events page.
3) I haven't checked, but I think that after the reboot, these events do not disappear and still show as 99+ red unread alerts.
Can you make sure that after the reboot, all these events, or the one remaining if you fix that issue, are set to read?
4) If this generates a red colored event, obviously the top pane should display it as an orange alert at least to be consistent.
As I understand, the update is not effective until the reboot, so it is critical for my security and I want this alert to be treated as such.
5) The update is not replacing Windows kernel, so there is zero reason why a reboot should be required.
I don't know if the Windows Restart Manager API can be used in contexts other than normal installers, for your silent updates for instance, but please consider a secure way of shutting down Bitdefender completely and automatically restarting the service and apps, so that no reboot is necessary. Or redesign your files so that the Bitdefender kernel file never changes across all updates of the same version, and all other files and libraries and services can be shut down safely for update purposes or something.
