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Answering my own question in case others run into it: Yes. The code was usable to extend the existing subscription. So at least currently, if you find boxed versions for previous years on sale, these are a nice way to extend the subscription at a discount.

11 hours ago, Sergiu C. said: Did you try the steps in the first article I posted? Yes. It was not in my login items, and there is no second copy. I'm still trying to work out a minimal reproducible scenario. But my current theory is that it happens when Bitdefender is starting up at the same time as another program that…

On 10/2/2018 at 9:10 AM, foresme said: The main bitdefender window opens every time I log in to my mac. Is there a way to make it so that it just runs in the background and doesn't make me close the window every single time? I did turn off special offers but that didn't change the behavior. Did you ever find a solution for…

3 hours ago, Roxana G said: Hello All, If you suspect that the slowdown may be caused by Bitdefender, please check in Activity Monitor if you have any Bitdefender process at CPU, Disk and Memory tabs. If there is any Bitdefender process using resources, please reply back with the name of the process and the amount. I…

3 hours ago, Roxana G said: Hello, You may turn off all Bitdefender notifications as it follows: 1. Open System Preferences from Dock or from the Apple Logo menu. 2. Go to Notifications. 3. Select Antivirus for Mac from the applications list in the left panel. 4. At Alert style choose None. 5. You can also disable Play…

Yup. This is by design. If you look in logs for macOS you'll see: > Dropping mouse down event because sender's PID (942) isn't 0 or self (522) Some third-party pointing devices that require their own drivers also do not work. macOS itself verifies that the button click event is not being triggered by a ****** or program…

It slows down my boot too. It also slows down system shutdown. I haven't found a fix yet. This might just be the cost of Mac AV.