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The Wolf of Scam Street meets Space Pioneer, but don’t buy the hype
Scams exploiting celebrity identities and reputable brands remain highly effective, particularly those leveraging influential names like Elon Musk and Leonardo DiCaprio. Recently, Bitdefender’s researchers Viorel Zăvoiu & Alina Bîzgă uncovered multiple email fraud schemes attempting to exploit these high-profile figures.…
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Join our latest Q&A session with Bitdefender’s Director of Innovation – Razvan Costache
📣 We’re excited to invite you to an exclusive Community Q&A session featuring a very special guest! Razvan Costache is the Director of Innovation for the Consumer Division. Over the past 13 years at Bitdefender, he has focused on product management and digital transformation, leading the development of software solutions…
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Recently Bitdefender has been detecting java running a malicious command line.
I'm confused as I haven't changed anything or messed with anything it happens whenever i launch modded minecraft (keep in mind i haven't made any changes and have been using this for a while) My cousin also uses the same mods and everything but he doesn't have this problem…
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Why does my VPN affect my running tracker accuracy?
I've been using a VPN for a while now, mainly for privacy and security reasons, but recently, I noticed something odd when tracking my outdoor runs. I rely on a web-based running session tracker to log my routes and times, and ever since I started keeping my VPN on while using it, my recorded routes seem slightly off. At…
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Bitdefender central security graph issue
Hi everyone, My bitdefender total security blocked some threats on the 27th of March, the 29th of March and the 30th of March that are shown in the security tab in central but do not show in the graph in the security tab or on the dashboard. This is only for one of my PC's, my other PC's blocked threats do show in the…
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Bitdefender SecurePass inside Bitdefender Safepay
My Bitdefender SafePay does not show the SecurePass red icon at the top right corner. This means I cannot use my signing/login information saved in SecurePass. Does anybody know how to solve this problem? My Savepay version is: 27.0.35.147 and the latest version according to Bitdefender is: 30.0.26.84. How can I get it?…
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How to disable BitDefender pop up advertising?
I used to have McAffee and it just kind of ran in the background and protected my PC from viruses. Now my boss has installed BitDefender and I keep getting pop up ads. I turned off "Special Offers" and "Recommendation Notifications" (that are turned on by default 🤮) but I still get pop ups every day. Most recently for…
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Question about the Bitdefender scan
Does it just scan the apps on my device or does it scan deep in my device like in the files in my system and stuff.
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Windows wants UAC enabled to restore system apps
I researched the topic of temporarily disabling Bitdefender for testing purposes, and I found that it's basically impossible. My problem is, some stock apps, more specifically Microsoft Store, Calculator and Calendar failed to launch after a Windows update. This is a known issue, it's not just me. Most troubleshooting…
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Kaspersky Orphan Supremely Underwhelmed
The amount of time it takes to troubleshoot unalerted port, app, system, service blocks on my child's account is unbelievable. No way to easily impersonate parent to be able to configure is crazy. Let alone the absence of any notification of port blocks that are keeping the entire Internet (other than Bitdefender…
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Managing subscriptions and finding someone to help
I was just asked during an audit about why I have 4 different billings for our bit defender account. I have not been able to reach someone to help me understand about the 4 separate subscription charges in November that total $447. We are a fairly tiny company. The website gives instructions to be able to turn off auto…
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How do I join a family account when I already have a single account?
My subscription is about to expire and I wish to get on an account with my mother and brother. I can get the link from their account but it only takes me to a page wanting to download the program. If I click Switch Accounts in the app it goes to a login page. I don't necessarily feel like I want to get their password to…
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Convertkit and Beehiiv links - access denied
When I use legit links for services like convertkit and beehiiv, I get an access denied message and even with advanced options, I can't access the content. How do I enable/disable whatever is blocking these?
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password protected file
I don't understand! For a few days now I have had a lot of password-protected files.
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How do I print only part of a document in Safe Pay? It prints the whole thing. No choices.
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Bitdefender Mobile Security: Chat Protection Not Working.
Hi, I noticed that the chat protection in Bitdefender Mobile Security is not working even though the feature is enabled in the app. If I receive emails, SMS or chats with malicious links, BMS does nothing and no startup message appears. When I open the links, BMS web protection activates and warns that the website is…
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Please issue Bitdefender for Linux home users
Please Bitdefender Home User team, please re-issue a Bitdefender AV for Linux home users. I have been working with several people this past year (12/2023), installing and fine tuning Linux (Ubuntu, Mint, Zorin). (These are folks who previously used Windows and/or Macs.) And the only AV product for home user, which I've…
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Why not Home Protection for Linux?
Hello there I found out that home security protection was discontinued for Linux, and I don't know the reason, but it would be great if you bring it back. Nowadays, there are people that prefer to use Linux Desktop and they want to be protected.
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Is there a way to set up Bitdefender VPN on Linux?
I tried installing Bitdefender VPN on Fedora Linux using Bottles and Wine but none worked. So, I tried looking for a .ovpn file from Bitdefender VPN to try and set it up on Linux but couldn't find it. Is there any other way? I'm really satisfied with the products Bitdefender offers with the subscription and would like to…
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Very important about much needed support for Linux Zorin OS and Linux distros
With many waking up to the dangers of A.I. and corporate tracking getting worse, we are not wanting to go to Windows 11, especially the new versions due to A.I.; and Microsoft, Apple and many companies wanting to force A.I. and neuro processing units, tracking and processes down all our throats. I will NOT be upgrading my…
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Bitdefender VPN for Linux (Ubuntu 24.04 support)
2025, and still no support for one of the biggest open source OS. Total security member for a few years with bitdefender and now that i am also a Ubuntu user, i guess time to switch services? Is this even in pipeline to support Linux flavors? At least VPN should be an easy support.
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Is Bitdefender available for Linux home use?
I'm considering ditching Windows for Linux but can't find any recent reference - last mention appears to be 2 years ago. Has Linus protection been re-issued or are there any plans to do so? If I run dual with windows and Linux will BD protect under Linux or just Windows?
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Can't connect to VPN
Hello, in my case, I am not getting any erroe codes, but my VPN just cannot connect to any server anywhere. There's no problem with my phone or tablett, it's just my laptop that won't connect. Any ideas? It's starting to get annoying…
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Add Linux Support to the Home User Product
Title pretty much says it all. Support the major Linux Distributions in your Home User product. Give us at least some basic AV and Malware/Root Kit protection such that we can see our Linux machines in the dashboard.
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Please bring Linux back..
@devs, super please bring back the Linux support/version (for residential/individual/family versions) >.< Both my wife and I have migrated from Windows to Linux since earlier this year and there's no looking back. I may run my Windows disk as/thru a VM, but hardly ever, and am either on Linux Mint (debian/Ubuntu based)…
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Microsoft has killed PCs and we are now running Linux
Dear Bitdefender, Since Microsoft is killing our PC's ability to run Windows 11 on our not old computers, will your company please re institute Bitdefender for Linux. I looks like there will be a surge of new users. I am now running Linux Mint on about 5 family PCs. They need active protection. Thanks for your help on this…
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Error 402
I'm in a constant do-loop (for you geezers). Cannot open Password Mgr. It says to use Bitdefender to open and I get an Error 402 message, Rinse, repeat, rinse repeat. Do I need to totally uninstall? Thanks
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Two or more security apps in one device
Dears, I have two mobile security apps on my device. For example, if I have (Bitdefender Mobile Security) & (Norton Mobile Security) on my mobile, is there a problem with the device?
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Bitdefender Secure Pass still a mess in 2025 March
Super slow I have to click or hover over the icon in the login box. It never asks or atempts to do autofill on a new site. Even then I have to wait forever to auto fill. Bummer back to password manager for a while….way too slow to be usefull
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Subscription issue
I Bought BD Total Security Subscript And It Says I'm On Trial.