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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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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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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 Standard in Tech for Secure Communications & Preventing Breach of Data
As technology evolves, secure communication and data privacy are becoming top priorities. New standards like stronger encryption, privacy-first app design, and better protection against data breaches are changing how we communicate online, but the question is, are they truly effective? Share your opinions or ideas: Are you…
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dozens of BDExtensionCommunication processes eating 99% cpu
Two days ago, Bitdefender started spawning dozens of BDExtensionCommunication processes, which consumed 99% of the CPU. (I'm presuming there was an update). I killed them, and the cpu returned to normal. But they came back. A reboot did no good. A removal and reinstall did no good. Disabling Bitdefender did no good. So…
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Difficulty accessing Unity learning presentations offline – how do others handle this?
While learning Unity, I often depend on official documentation, but some advanced concepts (performance optimization, lighting pipelines, mobile builds) are explained much better in SlideShare presentations shared from Unity talks and game dev conferences. The real issue I face is that these presentations are not always…
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The Expert Community supports our talented Computer Science students
This weekend we are visiting the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science - University Politehnica of Bucharest, where we support the students in the latest Hackathon challenge that takes place in the Bitdefender lab. The Hackathon involves solving an exercise proposed by the Operating Systems team, from the…
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Bitdefender virtual disk
Even after searching and seeing to update to the newest version of the Free version, after awhile the virtual disk is popping it's useless self up again. Is there an actual solution to this? It does seem like it showed up after installing the newest version of VirtualBox. I will uninstall both, then reinstall Bitdefender…
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Crypto Cheating
Coinarch.net is definitely fraudulent website of depositing crypto currency and stole it is doing the transaction for domain selling. The community of Finance has to report this website worldwide…
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Yubikey and passkey to sign in Bitdefender central
Hi Can you bring passkey/Yubikey options to 2FA sign-in Bitdefender central?
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Safepay and Signing into Fidelity
This has just started recently. I have search for a way to correct without sucess. When I sign into Fidelity via Safepay, I get the following from Fidelity "Sorry, we can't complete this action right now. Please try again." Then if I try to resign back in I get the same message. If I sign into fidelity without Safepay I…
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"Premium Security" Upgrade Did Not Replace "Total Security"
Hello All, I've got a problem which I'm hoping someone in the community can help me with. I used to have a subscription to "Total Security" which is expiring in a few days, so I have upgraded to "Premium Security". I'm on Windows 11. However my Bitdefender app on the laptop still says "Bitdefender Total Security", not…
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Secure Pass trial expired emails even though Secure Pass is included in Total Security
Some time ago, I tried to activate a Bitdefender Secure Pass trial from the Bitdefender website. At that time, I received an email saying I couldn’t use the trial because I had already used one before. So I assumed it didn’t activate. Later on, I purchased Bitdefender Total Security (1-year subscription), which clearly…
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Any excessive delay in refunds atm?
After I installed an anti-virus product, I found I could not use 75% of the Internet or even access Bitdefender's user guide! So I uninstalled it and requested a refund. This was six days ago now and I see from other threads I should have had a response within 72 hours max and probably sooner. Even if you only count…
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Sandbox Analyzer – “Portal not available” error when submitting files
Hello everyone, We are experiencing an issue in GravityZone Sandbox Analyzer. When submitting files for analysis, we consistently receive the error: Failed – Sandbox Analyzer Portal not available This has been happening for a while and does not seem to be file-specific. Has anyone else encountered this recently? Is this a…
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IOS: Is Web Protection the same as VPN?
I have Bitdefender total Security. The VPN on my iphone automatically is connecting and using Web Protection from Bitdefender, but if I go into the Bitdefender app and click on VPN, it says it is not connected. I know I am on some kind of VPN because in the upper right corner of my iphone screen, it says VPN Is connected.…
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[BUG] Bitdefender Free Version causes FC25/FC26 EA Games to crash
Hello, I’m encountering a reproducible issue when using Bitdefender Free together with the games EA Sports FC25 and FC26. Issue Description When Real-Time Protection is enabled, the game crashes during the initial loading screen (right before the main menu). As soon as I disable Real-Time Protection, the game launches…
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How to install Bitdefender Mobile Security for iOS
How to install Bitdefender Mobile Security for iOS (full guide here) To install Bitdefender Mobile Security for iOS on your device, watch the video below or follow the steps listed in this article.
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Real Time Like Pc In i phone 14 Pro Max
🙏🙂 Bitdefender Team ! Question : Product Mobile Security in Real Time Feature Like Pc In i phone 14 Pro Max ?
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Possible Yahoo email account takeover and suspecting someone has access to my PC
Someone in either Georgia or North or South Carolina have taken over my email account as well as lodged themselves into the computer so that maps and store locations indicate one of these locations not my own in Missouri..
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[Proof] Why I switched from Local AV (Bkav) to Bitdefender: 1s vs 2 hours scan.
Subject: Eye-opening comparison: Bitdefender’s thoroughness vs. a local AV’s surface scanning Hello everyone, I am a user from Vietnam, and I would like to share a recent experience that completely changed my perspective on cyber security, specifically why I decided to switch from a local antivirus (Bkav Pro) to…
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Does the firewall of total security filter security risks of online games too?
Does the firewall of total security filter security risks and expoit possible connection of online games too? example: Unreal-Engine v1 to 2.5 How can I check if a port listen from the internet.
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Will single device license work on Total security account?
I am running bit defender total security trial license on my single device. In the console it says upto 5 devices. I actually need bit defender total security on only one device. If I buy a one device license, will it work for me? Or I must buy a 5 device license to be able to use bit defender total security.
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Adobe and Topaz Downloads Fail
I'm having problems with Netgear Armor interfering with downloads and updates from major photography programs; Adobe PS and Lightroom, Topaz Suite. I disable VPN and turn off Netgear Shield but still get the protection message to Allow of 5 minutes which isn't enough time. Once the update gets interrupted it fails and I…
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NordPass to Bitdefender SecurePass import and login
I am working to move from Nordpass. I can not find an import, but I am using both for a while. Everytime I want to activate Securepass, I have to give biometric signin, main Bitdefender login, Securepass login and aditional biometric login. There must be an easier way.
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Get the VPN task bar icon on Mac to indicate whether connected or not?
Hi My old windows 10 BD VPN task bar icon was red with green dot when the VPN was active/connected. On my new Mac it is just white and have to click it to show VPN window to get status. Surely BD can add some feature to the icon in Mac (like a tick or cross) to show the connection status? Is there a way to tell connection…
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Bitdefender not updating, just sits for days
I use the update when requested, but it never updates….days
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Task Scheduler?
Why can't i use it execlusively on my own terms rather than depending on Agent's ability to schedule the inconvient timings? plus also wanted to execute the task scheduler to this bitdefender; why can't i do this?
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Bitdefender DLL corruption causing Windows 11 failures, “Bad Image” errors, and blocking reboot
I am experiencing a severe system integrity issue that appears to be caused by corrupted Bitdefender components, specifically Bitdefender DLLs injecting into other applications and breaking core Windows functionality. Symptoms: -Multiple applications (notably Steam) fail to launch with “Bad Image” errors referencing…
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Bitdefender Removable Drives Encryption
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Vivaldi web protection
It seems like web protection is not suported for Vivaldi in Android, eventhough it's a very trustworthy browser. Is there a plan to add it to the list? This might make me give up on Bitdefender.
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H24 setting of notification time
Hello, i suggest solving this bug for those who install Bitdefender on PC with hh:mm H24 time format to be able to have this display of notification time in this format.Currently the format is always AM/PM, while some time ago it was not like this but in H24 format: Thank you.
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A few questions about SecurePass
What happens to my existing passwords at websites? I have 286 websites with passwords, If I setup SecurePass do they get deleted? If I cancel the SecurePass can I get those passwords back on the sites? Can I access websites from devices not in my 5 that I can setup?