Update requires restart?

MBergijk

What ignoramus has decided to require a restart after an update? Imagine busy on your system, work or gaming or whatever, something you do not want to stop, and seeing that there is an update for Bitdefender. For once, it interrupts you in your flow. Then you need to manually start the update, the second interruption. And lastly you need to restart, after the update. Forget you where busy.

Suggestion, perform the update when the user turns of the system, and the required restart will be fulfilled when the user start the system. No interruption at all.

Scott

Hi @MBergijk

It may not be the most convenient way, but Bitdefender has been requiring major build updates with a restart for years, it's how they're able to modify and install the files which can be resolving a known issue or two.

You can just tick the minimize button at the top of the update/restart window and finish up what you need to, and restart later. None of Bitdefender's shields will stop working, you just won't get any new AV, malware signature updates during that pause time.

Kind regards,

Scott

Carolinarider

I know this is an "old" thread but I was just looking at Bitdefender today to see if there were any issues and I saw the need to restart to update Bitdefender. I did a web search, since I had never seen that before, and found this thread.

I guess I just ignored the first message I got about the upgrade but I don't ever remember seeing one.

I reboot by MacBook Air about once a week just to clean house. So, I will wait for a few more days to instal the new "whatever it is" software from Bitdefender.