Blocked Web Pages

Try closing out the browser, and right click on the Bitdefender desktop shortcut, and Run As Admin. leave the B.D. console open (maybe it allows all processes, and could be closed?), and see if those links that wouldn't open, will open.

Ha! Nice! Should there be an adminstrator mode for BF on a standard user account on the PC?

After using the helpful information above to turn off the Bitdefender parental controls for non-administrator user accounts on my Win 7 Enterprise 64 bit operating system, I thought it might be helpful to provide a slightly more detailed summary of the problem and process by which the problem can be solved.

First, it appears that by default Bitdefender (Total Security 2012) identifies every Win 7 non-Administrator user account (e.g., 'Standard' user accounts) as a teenager (ages 14-17) and automatically turns on Bitdefender parental controls for those user accounts (note: this even though the Win 7 user account parental controls are not turned on and are not changed by Bitdefender in the Win 7 user account settings). Thus, if Bitdefender blocks a webpage for a non-administrator user and tells the user that "This page is blocked by the administrator", you (as Win 7 and Bitdefender administrator) cannot unblock it by going to the Win 7 control panel -> user accounts and changing any settings in the affected non-administrator user account (unless you want to make a non-admin. account an administrator account), because these settings have not been changed by Bitdefender. If you want to leave the affected Win 7 user accounts as non-administrator (without parental controls) but put an end to the web blocking by Bitdefender, it seems that the only way you (the Win 7 and Bitdefender administrator) can do it is by opening the Bitdefender control panel and turning off the parental controls that Bitdefender, by default, has imposed on all of the non-administrator user accounts listed in Bitdefender.

To turn off the parental controls in the Bitdefender control panel:

1. Open the Bitdefender control panel as the Administrator.

2. Click 'Settings' (on the top).

3. Click 'Parental Control' (on the left).

4. Click 'Accounts' (on the top).

5. Click the 'Parental Control is On/Off' button to 'Off' for each non-administrator account that you want to unblock.

Perhaps Bitdefender mentions somewhere in their instructions that (apparently) by default they configure non-Administrator user account settings in Bitdefender with the 'Parental Control' ON (and thus block web sites that they regard as inappropriate for teens), but I couldn't find it. For my version of Bitdefender on my Win 7 OS, these steps solved the web site blocking problem.

Nice job rflo, you did some nice research, with a thoughtful descriptive post, thank you.

Thanks, columbo. You and others who are willing and able to help do a great (underappreciated) service to those of us who are more often befuddled than we would like to admit.