How to stop bitdefender popups/notifications

I got the same problem and I even uninstalled the program and I still get pop ups from a program that does not exist on my computer. The Bitdefender free VPN can be uninstalled but it leaves behind the garbage that drives everyone nuts. I am never buying this crap again.

*logs into windows*

Bitdefender: "VPN?"

Me: "No. No bitdefender. Not today.. NOT ANY OF THE DAYS LAST WEEK OR LAST MONTH!!!! NOT TOMORROW OR THE NEXT DAY!!!"

*opens a webpage*

Bitdefender: "Safepay?"

Me: "No"

*opens a webpage*

Bitdefender: "Safepay?"

Me: "God dammit bitdefender, god dammit."

I had to uninstall it until this is fixed.

The only profile notification I get is for the Work Profile. There isn't really any application I can add to it that I might also be using while playing a game. Thus I leave Work Profile empty. After the first notification, I don't get it again until I reboot then I see it again when I go to use that application or any other that isn't in any other profile. When I open Bitdefender and go to profile settings the work profile will be set to manual while Activate Profiles Automatically is still set even after I previously set Work Profile from Manual to Automatic via the slider switch but only that profile. In fact the only profile I have configured is the Games Profile and I don't get notifications for the other ones even though I don't have them set. Something's wrong somewhere in the programming for the Bitdefender UI

I was fed up with this software from the very beginning, its done nothing but give me troubles and its proven to be a terrible investment. its constantly spam notifies you about everything like an a little attentionwhoretoddler. it blocks everything i try to install so half of the software is turned off by now, it even blocks reputable sites because it had certain commercials on them that wouldnt affect me anyways xD it recommends scanning everything instead of just doing it! But do i accept it - no notification will tell me if it was okay or not!! Whats up with that!! x,D i mean wtf. notification hell, but not a useful notification?! I decided already within 2 week i didnt want this software, ive had it for 6 months now and im uninstalling it soon cause i cant handle it and you as a company obviously dont value your costumers opinions. Bitdefender youre nothing but a quick cash grab made to look good and overprotective so you can boast about the titles you win online and get consumers fooled. You are not a product made for better user experience while having a computer and you will earn shortly now but when people knows what you are, they'll look other places for online protection. Youre smart to ask for a whole year of price cause people will leave you after a month. I feel sorry for you. Its like a nagging ex girlfriend by this point :,D and no - i will not be trying to resolve any of my problems to continuously feed you, its not right to jump through hoops as a consumer to get a good product when its clearly what youre portraying as a company. Last time i checked - false advertisement is illigal, its called screwing people. You dont buy a new car only to go rebuild it before you can be comfortable driving it right=?! This comment is a service to all other potential buys, go get software thats manageable to actually have installed on your pc. *mic drop

I have 3 weeks left of my license. I will not renew.

Bitdefender has become nagware.

So long...

What also triggers me specially is that I start a game, this idiot program tells me about microphone usage and then blocks my GAME'S SCREEN! Let me disable ALL popups please. This is the only thing you can redeem BD with.

Try this -

From Bitdefender's Dashboard go to settings -

Turn off Special Notifications and Recommendation Notifications

Go to Protection

Firewall Settings

Go to Settings and turn off Alert Mode

Restart the computer. Good luck.

Still no option to disable infected web resource and profile switch notifications.

I'm in the same situation NikMara and community. I'm thinking that the best fix is to remove it entirely. I'm also surprised that some people would try to blame COVID for the lack of customer support since many, if not most, companies these days use remote customer support already. I know that Norton was (is) a resource hog, but at least it left me alone to work. Right now, BD is the most annoying piece of software on my computer.

Absolutely does not work as I can't even find such settings in my Anti-virus Plus! THE worst thing I have ever bouight this year.

I'm also about to switch antivirus, sadly because I trust Bitdefender and used it for years...

I have a web server at home for work and everytime a robot post something on my developing platform, it trigger an Online Threat notification and I can receive thousands in a single day. This make me lose focus of the main window, so if I am typing it stop and I have to click to go back on my main window. I can't handle this anymore...

I don't want to disable the Online Threat Module because it does it job, but I wish it to do it in background without annoying me or without minimizing my games or main window.

Please add an option to turn OFF notifications.

Thanks

This is a problem with Bit Defender's interface with Windows. To turn off the notifications in Windows:

Go to Start -- Settings -- System -- Notifications & Actions -- Scroll down to turn off either ALL notifications OR just notifications from Bit Defender. This stops the constant “blocked suspicion connection” popup, but NOT the occasional Profile popup.

There are additional notification settings within Bit Defender itself.

-- Settings (Left Panel) -- General Tab: Turn OFF the following: Special Offers and Recommendation Notifications

-- Protection (Left Panel) -- Firewall -- Settings -- Settings tab: Turn OFF alert mode

Yeah this renders my computer unusable which in turn makes Bitdefender a virus. I opened an email with a large number of images trying to load over https that don't have an SSL resulting in a complete freeze of my machine due to notification overload. Every notification must individually be closed. I've been clicking 100+ times to close these and if I reload this email to test changes, it starts all over again. I've tested turning off all notifications as previously mentioned in both general settings and protection>firewall>alerts. I still get this "insecure connection blocked" notification spamming my machine like a virus from the 90's. Fix your software Bitdefender... I don't know how you missed the mark and thought your notifications superseded user's needs.

YESSS! This profile notifications is SUPER annoying.

I still can't believe this thread is going... How have they not FIXED this yet?

Yeah, I'll not be renewing either. This is so lazy of them!

Installed 2 days ago. 97 pop-up notifications in 1 hour. No help from Bitdefender. Even got 3 pop-ups opening the Chat on Bitdefender's own site. Had Bitdefender a few years ago with no problem. Cutting losses and going back to my old Free Antivirus and will assess where to go. Will try and recover purchase price but losing the money is better than sticking with it.

I have two monitors on my computer. Open up word on one screen, get a pop up telling me bitdefender is in "work" mode. Switch my focus to a different program on another screen, get another pop up telling me bitdefender is no longer in "work" mode.

Seriously, I have no problem with the profiles feature, but the notification spam is incredibly annoying. I ended up switching off the profiles completely to avoid the notifications - and when a user is having to disable a feature entirely just to avoid the pop up spam then what's the bloody point of having the feature in the first place?

Sort it out Bitdefender, or I won't bother renewing.

Let me add my voice to this too. I DON'T NEED TO BE TOLD EVERY DAY THAT I DON'T HAVE AN AV USAGE PROFILE SET-UP.

STOP IT.

IF ALL MY PROTECTION SETTINGS ARE ACTIVE, STOP RECOMMENDING THAT I SET UP A GAMING PROFILE.

100% UNECESSARY.

THIS UPDATE IS MAKING ME CONSIDER CANCELLING MY FAMILY LICENSES.

Any news on this topic? I get notifications all the time, particularly when I use Outlook. I click on a spam and have a preview pane and as soon as I click on it to delete it, there is about 10 notifications for the one spam I clicked on... Then, 10 for the next one... It is never ending. I have taken a look at dozens of settings pages for notification options, did not find anything to turn it off. That is really annoying and is counterproductive.

Thanks!

I have been getting this "work profile" popup as well and am so annoyed by it. Very disappointing to see that people have been complaining about it since at least June 2020, and it continues to happen. Only responses seem to be to send logs to the company. Are there not enough logs by now to have pushed out a resolution through an update?

It's sad. As a student in informatics, I don't see any reason to not add a settings tab to the notifications page where you can toggle off all the different types of notifications. But you've made it unnecessarily hard and inaccessible by design to keep reminding the user that bitdefender is working in the background. One of the worst design choices I have ever seen while being a student in informatics.

If I find a better antivirus software, I'll make sure to keep everyone in this forum updated.

I can’t believe I just locked myself in for a year of this. I will have to uninstall this f#%X#*g malware and take the loss. 

When I couldn’t figure out how to shut off the notifications I googled it assuming I’d find a quick way to shut it off. No biggie. Instead I find this thread full of frustrated people who have tried everything and concluded that nothing works.

This is like ransomware. The only way to get rid of is to give up the year of service I just paid for.

Whoops, gotta go - I’m late for my new full-time job and life quest which is seeking out places on the internet where I can give Bitdefender bad ratings. Have a nice day.

I keep having the same issue and switched to another antivirus product - this is just too annoying. BD would be out of business if they don't fix it soon...