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Splitting a Bitdefender Central account's PCs
Some time ago, I bought a 3-PC subscription for Antivirus Plus and installed it on three PCs. I registered with Bitdefender Central which ties all three PCs together. Now I want to give one of the PCs to someone else and isolate that PC from the others with respect to Bitdefender. When the subscription expires, should I…
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Still Broken On First Scan
I just installed Bitdefender AV 2013 on yet another freshly-built W-7 system using a legal Microsoft MSDN disc. Just like the last few times, the first scan turned up a rootkit. The only website I visited was Bitdefender's, so does Bitdefender's website contain a rootkit? Another thing I only half-noticed last time…
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For Everyone Having Trouble
Here are a few tidbits learned through recent experience. All of the below refers to Windows 7, but I bet it is also relevant for other Windows OS. In the last month or two, Bitdefender made a few changes. I think they fixed some problems, but they also eliminated the blue status indicator informing users of the update. I…
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Bitdefender Antivirus 2013 Will Not Update With Dual-boot Pc
I have a newly built dual-boot PC (built by me: Intel H67 motherboard and Sandy Bridge CPU) with Windows 7 Pro 64 in both boot_s. I put Bitdefender on only one OS. The installation appeared to go fine, but when I try to update, I see an error 1017. Bitdefender support told me that 1017 means there is a communications…
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Gadget Does Not Meet Microsoft Security
If you look at the below URL, you will read that Microsoft believes that gadgets are vulnerable to attack. Gadgets are not included in W-8 and the below link offers a "Fix it" to disable gadgets altogether in Vista/7. I realize we are in trouble if we must worry about gadgets from our anti-virus vendor, yet F-Secure and…
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Bitdefender Av 2013's Feud With Office 2010
I just installed W-7 from a clean install. I loaded all Windows Updates and then installed Bitdefender AV 2013. The I remembered that I had not yet loaded Office 2010; usually I load it before installing anti-virus. I inserted the disk and selected the non-autorun option because I want to load the 64-bit files. Then I…
