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Bitdefender product updates and release notes
Bitdefender ensures the best cyber-security available on the market and offers a wealth of features designed to keep your devices safe. Upgrading to the newest version is possible without following the manual uninstall and reinstall procedure. More exactly, the new product including new features and major product…
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Bitdefender Awards and Certifications: Industry Recognition
Antimalware Test Results from Leading Agencies: AV-Test, AV-Comparatives, MRG Effitas, Virus Bulletin, and more. This post is dedicated to showcasing the latest antimalware testing results conducted by various organizations. Only admin @Alexandru_BD, along with moderators @fedor, @Nunzio77, @Gjoksi, and @Flexx, have the…
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Latest SecurePass update brings smarter Autofill, security reports & more
The SecurePass journey has been a bit of a rollercoaster with its share of ups, downs, and challenges along the way. The latest updates bring meaningful improvements across the board and are designed to give users more control, a better experience and peace of mind. Below, you’ll find the highlights from the latest…
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Bitdefender and Scuderia Ferrari HP Partnership extension celebrated in style
On Thursday, November 6th, Bitdefender celebrated a remarkable milestone: 24 years of innovation, protection, and technological excellence. Just one day later, the party continued as the company unveiled the Ferrari SF-23 car right in front of its Bucharest headquarters, marking the official extension of its multi-year…
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Updates on Frequently Requested Bitdefender Products & Features
Dear Bitdefender Community Members, Over the past months, we’ve noticed a growing number of requests and discussions regarding the introduction or return of various Bitdefender products and features. As these topics continue to appear across multiple threads, this post serves as an official reference and consolidated…
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Introducing GravityZone Security Data Lake – SIEM done right
Cyber threats are evolving faster than ever. Yet many organizations are still relying on legacy SIEM tools that cost more, store less, and struggle to correlate across disparate systems. That’s why we’re excited to launch Bitdefender GravityZone Security Data Lake – our next-gen solution that blends the best of SIEM and…
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The Bitdefender Expert Community guidelines and tips to get you started!
Our mission: Welcome to the Bitdefender Expert Community! These forums allow Bitdefender users and enthusiasts to connect with each other in order to share tips and insights, resolve issues, and discuss all things related to tech and cybersecurity. Our promise is to nurture and maintain an environment where real people can…
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Guidelines for Product features & Ideation
We are always excited to hear your suggestions and ideas about Bitdefender products and services. To ensure our product developers can use your suggestions, we have a couple of guidelines, to help you get the best out of the Product features & Ideation section: It is essential that all ideas include a user story, that is,…
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New Bitdefender Total Security Activation did not extend existing subscription
Hello, I currently have an active Bitdefender Total Security subscription that expires on 27 December. On 3 December, I purchased the same Bitdefender Total Security subscription with the intention of extending my existing subscription period. However, after activating the new code, my Bitdefender Central account shows the…
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Bitdefender makes Windows start in Recovery Mode
Hello. I have an issue with the latest version of Bitdefender. Ever since it updated not so long ago, it has been booting my desktop into recovery mode whenever I turn it on. I am certain it's an issue to do with Rescue Environment. I narrowed this issue down to BitDefender because I only installed it on my computer…
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Network Whitelisting
What I would like to see as a feature is the ability to whitelist any Wi-Fi network. For instance, if you are at your home network or your office network, the VPN does not activate. However, once you do change network or go to mobile internet data, the VPN kicks in automatically. Ideally, if you can set up your own…
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Penalty for automatically renewing BD subscription?
Maybe some people smarter than me can understand why Bitdefender chooses to charge higher prices for automatic subscription renewals than for manual renewals. I received an email on 04 July 2025 as follows. Hello [Surname Forename], We are glad you decided to continue using Bitdefender and automatically renew your…
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One Click Optimizer doesn't clean up the junk files, and these junk files keep building up.
My desk top OS is Window 10 Pro. "One Click Optimizer" doesn't clean up the junk files, and these junk files keep building up. I tried to delete these files but Window required "Administrator" to access. I tried changing myself to "Admin" (which I am!) window still reject me. Please help. Please see the "word" doc.…
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The Defenders of the month are the Community superheroes
It's time to show our appreciation for our top contributors and give back to the Community! We are pleased to announce that we are launching our Super User program called “Defenders of the Month” and “Defenders of the Year”, exclusively for the members of our Community! The Super User program represents an exclusive group…
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Update stops at 90%
Well its back. When I go to the right hand corner and right click on Bit Defender and select Update, it goes to 90% and stops. If I cancel the update all of Bit Defender shuts down. When I reboot and try to do the update again it says Threat Information Update 0.00 & Product Update 0.00. If I continue it stops at 90%…
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Sudden Blocking Alerts
My apologies about my last post of the same heading, I hit the wrong key. In the last 2 days I have been getting numerous alerts about blocked suspicious connections that were relying on an untrusted certificate to wpad. This has referenced both chrome and msedge. I have no other information and do not know if I should…
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New malware
Albiriox
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How can I shred my deleted files?
I can only find links to delete existing files. Is it possible to shred my deleted files?
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Blocked country codes on Call Blocking removes itself
Good Day everyone, I have been monitoring and noticing that whenever I try to add country code to the list of call blocking, the country code is there for a while and after say 1-2 hours, when you check back, the country code is missing from the lists from the BMS for android. So far I have tried reinstalling the…
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Systpenhservice.exe - this is acting like malware and I cannot delete it
I discovered that an executable file, syntpenhservice.exe has frequently been running on my computer and seems to be causing my computer to reboot. Apparently this is a driver is and it is a 64bit Synaptics Pointing Enhance Service, but I don't even have a device like this on my computer. I spent months trying to find this…
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Installing Premium Security on a laptop already protected with Total Security
Hi, my Total security software is near to expire so I decided to buy Premium. I disinstalled the software from the machine and removed Its name from the "manage devices" of my subscription page, but also if I download the installation from the new subscription (Premium) it always install the "Total" software. What am I…
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How Do I Configure The Firewall for Webdav Connection?
When I work from home, I access my office services through it's Webdav connection. I currently use Netdrive, which is very flawed in that it causes sync issues, resulting in files being randomly locked and deleted from the server. I've finally got the built-in Webdav service in Windows working, however, I can only connect…
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Refund
Hi! I purchased a subscription, but after making the payment on your page I didn't receive a confirmation message. It kept asking me to enter the payment details again, so I assumed the payment hadn't been processed. The money wasn't withdrawn for the transaction in the bank's app either. So I purchased the subscription…
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VPN for Linux Distros . . .
When will the client be available for subscription? This product is desperately needed. Regards,
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Email issue after last night's Bitdefender update
This morning I am unable to send any emails from my Thunderbird account on this laptop. I get an error that says "Sending of the message failed. An error occurred when sending mail. The server responded: <***> sender rejected AUP#POL. Please verify that your email address is correct in your account settings and try again."…
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how do i download a vpn im on my school lenovo chromebook and it blocks almost everything
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Unable to get into QuickBooks
I have been unable to get into the QuickBooks file for 3 weeks. After working with QuickBooks, they exhausted every effort on the file and program, and everything is working. They indicated that it is most likely my firewall (Bitdefender) blocking access. This began after the latest Windows 11 update, for which I had to…
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How to turn off Safepay notifications?
I hate notification popups. I do HATE them with all my willpower. Please explain how i am supposed to turn off safepay notifications? I have restarted PC multiple times, popup will not stop appearing. Bitdefender is great product, but bugs like that makes me hate it. PS. clicking "not for this page" also doesn't do…
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How do I work around a bug with Security?
Bit Defender will not let me log in. Fresh install of Windows, nothing has been put on it. Fully updated. I log into Bitdefender central, download Bitdefender, and install it. It does the assessment and directs me to create an account. Clicking this opens a page to create an account and Sign In on the bottom left. I click…
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The current Bitdefender version, build number link.
I'm sure most of us know how to find our version, build number via the BD system tray icon, right-click, About. As well as clicking the life preserver at the top of the main UI Dashboard, and Product information at the bottom. But here is the link to confirm that the build you're on, is the most current build available.…
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Comet AI browser support?
Hi all, When will be added support for a new Comet AI browser by Perplexity? Thanks in advance! Best wishes, Slavoljub
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change and renew
I currently subscribe to Bitdefender Ultimate Security Plus and want to move to Bitdefender Premium Security and extend my subscription. How do I accomplish?
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Bitdefender together with Scuderia Ferrari HP
Bitdefender entered into a multi-year partnership with Ferrari S.p.A., to become Cybersecurity global partner of Scuderia Ferrari HP. Full announcement below: https://www.bitdefender.com/scuderiaferrari/ Forza Ferrari!
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HSBC App Blocking Bitdefender
Recently my HSBC banking app will not open saying that I have to remove Bitdefender as its a security risk to the app. Any solution?
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Av.test.org lost performance!
During September and October 2025, among the 16 security products for home users using their default settings, Bitdefender lost performance!
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'erroneous' notifications of virus detection
I have done a system scan and remove 4 infections. rebooted the windows PC but I am still getting these 'erroneous' notifications of virus detection. How can stop these? Thanks in advance.
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How to download a file from github if bitdefender blocks it?
Its about a home media player via ugreen nas. I would like to install jellyfin via docker on my nas and found, that my samsung tv has no app in the store. I tried to download a jellyfin installer for my samsung tv (plex started to want money …) and bitdefender blocks the download. if i continue the download - i just…
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how to remove unwanted virus/ malware
Bit Defender has blocked multiple attempts to access my system from *** I do not know what it is but one blog suggested it to be a trojan. Does anyone know what it is, is it cause for concern and how do I get rid of it. Thanks in advance thehandwerker *** EDITED: File(s) and/or URL(s) removed by @Gjoksi "Posting malware…