Alert Mode is broken; does BitDefender block anything?

jerry.cronin

With Alert Mode broken, is BitDefender firewall just allowing everything in & out?

slightkerfufle

alert mode has been broken for months now, with the dev's doing nothing to fix it. The Default application behaviour defines whether a new application is allowed or blocked

Alexandru_BD

Hello @jerry.cronin and @slightkerfufle

In regards to the Alert Mode, we have an open discussion where our fellow members reported the issue:

https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/89671/alert-mode-is-broken

With this enabled, alerts are shown each time an app tries to connect to the internet. As the Alert Mode has a switch by design, if it's disabled, as it happens now, this doesn't mean that the Firewall is not working as intended.

As it can be seen in the screenshot below, the Firewall module itself has a switch button and can indeed be disabled (however I do not recommend this):

Thus, even if the Alert Mode setting is currently not performing as expected, Firewall functionality is not affected.

The developers are doing their best to resolve this and we are expecting the fix to be deployed with the following updates.

Best regards.