Stop it with the notifications

Hello.

Open your Bitdefender program and go to:

1. Settings -> General and disable "Special offers" and "Recommendation notifications"

2. Protection -> Antivirus -> Settings -> Scan flash drives and select "Autoscan" or "Disabled", do not select "Ask every time" (for the "USB Immunizer Recommendation" notification)

3. Privacy -> Safepay -> Settings and disable "Safepay notifications"

4. Privacy -> Video & Audio Protection -> Settings and disable "Notify when allowed applications connect to the webcam", "Notify when an application tries to access the microphone" and "Notify when browsers access the microphone"

5. Utilities -> Profiles -> Settings and disable "Activate profiles automatically" (for the Profile notification)

After doing that, in the future no pop-up notifications will be displayed in the lower right corner of your screen.

Also, under Utilities -> Profiles -> Settings, when "Work Profile" or "Game Profile" is enabled/activated, all Bitdefender alerts and pop-ups are disabled.

Finally, as for the Bitdefender VPN pop-ups, you can simply uninstall Bitdefender VPN from your device by following the steps provided here (just select "Bitdefender VPN"):

https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/2791/

or

open the Bitdefender VPN program, go to Settings -> Notifications and disable "Allow notifications".

REMEMBER: When a threat is detected, a pop-up notification will be displayed in the lower right corner of your screen and you can't disable those pop-up notifications.

Regards.

Would you please please please would be ever so kind and help me out in resolving the latest issue relating to the pop-up for the Password Manager I am seeing in the wonderous product that is Bitdefender Total Security? I have implemented all @Gjoksi extremely helpful tips regarding popups and I'm extremely sorry to report they do not work. I am unfortunately still seeing these popups. I humbly request a working solution to this vexing issue.

Thanking you for your gracious assistance in advance.

I hope this meets the politeness requirements for this forum.

I thought the first reply was in an incorrect forum and to ensure I was as helpful as possible to the fantastic people on this site thought I would comment on another, more appropriate sub-forum, where I learnt one must be very polite when receiving a poor service for a product and I have paid a lot of money for.

So be clear as I have this product on 4 PCs I will be expected to click on this less than helpful popup 12 times, even though I clicked to disable the recommendation. That is useful information to receive.

May I make a modest request for an update from @Alexandru_BD once he has received a reply from Bitdefender's software 'engineers'

Thank you for your laconic reply.

When I click on x the pop-up disappears. I will try to note when these occur.

It has just occurred again on one of my PCs 2022-08-16 20:10 BST I will update your went it occurs again

May I suggest implementing logging so that I can just send you a log and your company can do the work.

I checked the Event Log and there are no Bitdefender entries that I can see.

If I pay subscription, do not deliver ads by default.

And the useless annoying notification I got moments ago stuns me:

"Work Profile

We always have your back while working. The performance of your device was automatically optimized while using outlook.exe"

There's no problem with notifications not disappearing when dismissed.

There's a serious problem with useless notifications spammed by default.

Hello Gjoksi, I saw your original helpful post about settings.

My post however, was intended as a feedback post to Bitdefender on the notification policy as a whole - not a support request.

But since you mention it, I have a question about this advise:

5. Utilities -> Profiles -> Settings and disable "Activate profiles automatically" (for the Profile notification)

After doing that, in the future no pop-up notifications will be displayed in the lower right corner of your screen."

This de-activates the automatic profile feature - which I don't want to deactivate. I only want to deactivate the notification about it.

How would we feel if our cars loudly stated "I have successfully managed to change gear from 1 to 2"...

@Andy, and I got it too, despite that sh*t being turned off in the config.

@Alexandru: I'll be very frank: is this a cultural thing, that Bitdefender thinks this is a reasonable policy? Because where I live, it's a no-no.

For Gods sake, I'm paying a sub for this. OF COURSE there should be no ads, and absolutely not by default anyway.

And to have ads for your paying customers that's not possible to turn off?

I can tell you this: if you maintain that policy, it's not going to end well - you have competitors and it's very easy to choose an alternative with less strange and shady policy.

I' mean. I've only been a customer for a few days, and I already hate the product. So unnecessary.

I'm ready to give you some more time to resolve this - even though you've had plenty of time when I read other threads on the topic.

Thanks and good luck with improving your company.

I get the frustration

I get microphone alerts that drive me nuts on a windows 11 device with an Alexa app.

I always click on notification details that take me to a window where I'm supposed to be able to choose not to alert me for a particular application but no matter what I select, two things come back:

1. Amazon Alexa
2. Host Process for Windows Services

I also will not be renewing my subscription simply because there seems to be no control over this - It's either on and I assume I'm being protected with some seriously intrusive popups or, it's off. There is no functional/working trusted apps list to shut bitdefender up.