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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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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 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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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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Bitdefender VPN FAQ [Updated version]
Below there's a list of the most frequently asked questions from our users. Before posting, check it out, as you may find your answers right here: https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/7126/ Should you have other questions you wish to ask, you may post them in the comments below.
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Bitdefender's "Online Threat Prevention" ignores site exceptions
I have been using Bitdefender Total Security (up to 15 devices) for years on Windows and Android. This year i setup my home lab and unfortunately my experience with Bitdefender is becoming very frustrating that I am thinking of switching to another security solution. Background information: I have many fully local sites on…
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Where is the processing carried out for Online Threat Prevention?
Many of the components of the Online Threat Prevention feature, state that they "Checks every web page you access for X" is this processing carried out locally on my device, or are the websites visited checked on Bitdefender's servers? My concern is if Bitdefender is processing every web page I visit on their servers, this…
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How can I use Safepay for Banking Payments in Switzerland ?
Finally, Safepay is also compatible with UBS e-banking. In Switzerland, I always receive my invoices with a QR code, which I can scan in the banking app when making payments. Safepay doesn't allow me to use the camera, so I can't pay invoices with it. With Bitdefender, I can specify programs (e.g., the Firefox browser, but…
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Bitdefender GravityZone Google Workspace SAML Support
Support for SAML 2.0 is fairly basic but well understood, but Google Workspace does not use a publicly accessible metadata URL for its X.509 certificate exchange. Instead, they download an XML file from the GWS admin console and upload it to the service provider's console, likely for security reasons. Bitfender only…
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Polymorphic Malware based on AI
Hello, I would like to see with you a new subject deals on Malwares based on AI. Recently, I discovered this new Malware on You Tube video, here these subjects : 1/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7SfgIIuR2I 2/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcT9SKICcF8 Malware are boosted by AI and they are actually much powerfull than…
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detection of Generic.PY.Ferret.D.****** in uuidtext folder ?
Dear all, thanks for this community on Mac. I really enjoy Bitdefender Security, but I got strange symptoms last week with my iMac. At the end of a Fullscan (12th November2025) (iMac-ventura) finishing with “no threat detected”, I got notification : "Generic.Py.Ferret.D.E8127119" located…
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Password Manager keeps asking for Master password
Hi everyone, I am having trouble accessing my passwords in the Password Manager app. The app keeps asking me for the Master password "to unlock the vault" rather than accepting my fingerprint. I think it's been an issue for little over a month now. While I understand that it might important to fill in your password every…
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Scanned Connections in Bar Graph and Traffic Categories are not synching
Last week there was an update to Mobile Security (iOS) and the bar graph stopped functioning. I started a ticket with support and we are working to solve the issue.However, should he scanned connections within the traffic category equal the scanned connections in the bar graph?
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Why isn't Antivirus for Mac able to complete the scan?
What I have: MacBook Pro 2018 13 - macOS Sequoia 15.7.2 Subscription Plan: Bitdefender Total Security Apps installed: Antivirus for Mac 10.2.6 Bitdefender Agent 1.6.3 Core Security 10.2.6 FYI: I had Bitdefender installed for a long time, and it always worked fine alongside Little Snitch. I uninstalled Bitdefender when my…
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Antivirus Plus: comes not in my account
I just added a '1 Year, 3 Systems'. I paid, it is received, but I can't find or activate in my Bitdefender account. What do do/did I wrong? It's not possible to find any support on this on internet at Bitdefender…. Who know the sollution?
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Email account protection
I am a happy BD user, but I would like to understand how the software protects emails sent and received via client (Thunderbird). I currently have three accounts, one IMAP and two POP3. An old post specified that “there was no protection on IMAP”, in the sense that it was difficult to integrate it into BD. Regardless of…
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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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Instant "Message" when Incident occurs ?
Hi all, Is there a way to receive an email when a new entry appears in the incidents in gravityzone? It is tiring and counterproductive to receive emails with “empty” reports every few hours. Especially since the reports are also delivered as ZIP files and have to be unzipped first. I would appreciate any tips on this…
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When should I activate my new subscription for Total Security 2025
I currently have a subscription for Bitdefender Antivirus Plus which will expire on 6th Jan 2026. I've just purchased Bitdefender Total Security 2025 for 10 devices with a 2 year subscription. I've cancelled "Bitdefender Antivirus Plus" auto-renewal. Should I wait till my current subscription expires before activating…
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We Need To Be Able To Pause Protection
I am using Bitdefender Total Security. We need a way to pause protection. Sometimes it's needed. Please consider this. Thanks!
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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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Error in Bitdefender when trying to switch accounts
I'm trying to switch from my old BD account to my new one. I have my login and password and have it successfully logged on my laptop. On my main PC, when I try to switch accounts in Bitdefender, it keeps throwing up an error message after I fill in the email address. Is there anything I can do short of nuking BD from my…
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Why VPN connects automatically when starting windows against the settings selections not to do so?
I have connected bitdefender vpn on 5 devices. In the first one always starts automatically even though i have selected the setting not to turn on during startup. I have reinstalled it and the problem remains.
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HighReel app by moblegend
This app by a developer in HongKong appeared on my tablet mysteriously. The app has no reviews and seems to be very recent. Is it safe or is it malware?
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Percentage of scan in progress is a must.
I read many posts about this subject and the answers from BD is unacceptable. I woke up this morning and after 10h 10min, having scanned 18723720 items, it is not done and I don't have any idea when it is gonna be over. "Hard to evaluate how long it is gonna be. Depends on many factors". Common Guys ! From a support team,…
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Bitdefender VPN, Subscription not found even i still have till January of subscription..
Why I cant use VPN while I still have subscription and plenty of devices left..
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trouble with bitdefender firewall and LAN Zoo License Manager for Rhino 3D
Hi, I'm writing because I'm having a problem with my Rhino 3D license and my Zoo LAN connection. I'm using a computer as my Zoo server. When I launch Rhino on another computer and enter the IP address of the computer running Zoo, it can't find the license. If I test with the firewall disabled on the Zoo server computer, it…
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HOW TO DELETE DUPLICATE FILES FROM SYSTEMS OR SELECTED FOLDERS
HOW TO DELETE DUPLICATE FILES FROM SYSTEMS OR SELECTED FOLDERS
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Years old Vulnerability scan found critical windows update failed?
Hi, I am new to using Bit Defender just installed it last week. This is November of 2025 and I am seeing this Windows critical update failed all over the web since 2023? I am asking why has this not been addressed and fixed from what seems like at 2 years as an issue. I just installed Bitdefender and I am affected by this…
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Lots of 5007 logs in my Event Viewer
Hello, I wanted to ask if this is normal behaviour? I have installed following antivirus on my pc: bitdefender, malwarebytes but I get these logs almost every minute as you can see. Should I be concerned ? When I do the scans I get no virus or malware infection, system is clean I would appreciate it if you could help me. I…
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Windows 11 Update KB5065426(26100.6584) Size 88.5GB in Vulnerability scan results - Needs fixing!
Hi, Has anybody tried to install the latest update from Windows version mentioned in the title? I have never downloaded an update this size, even the win10-11 transition was not this big, if I'm not wrong..I was apprehensive of downloading this update because of the size, and its repercussions…This is probably a bug which…
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Possible small bug when viewing the file location of a firewall alert.
This might be a small bug, but might be worth looking into. Whenever you open explorer to view the file of a firewall alert via the GUI it spawns explorer.exe /factory {75dff2b7-6936-4c06-a8bb-676a7b00b24b} -embedding under svchost in process explorer. This is normal and is usually spawned when you open a folder from…
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This product is not available for this platform message Android
I have a Total Security subscription which includes Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. I had Bitdefender installed on my old Android tablet a Lenovo M10 and I've recently purchased a new Android tablet a Lenovo P12 but when I try to download it from my Bitdefender Central account I get the message This product is not available…
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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?