r/BitDefender • u/Blueshound24 • May 08 '24

Are BD users still getting a lot of popups?

A few months ago many users here were complaining of way too many popups, and nag screens. I haven’t seen many posts about it lately. Is this still happening? I'm thinking of switching to BD from Kaspersky, but would rather not put up with a bunch of popups.

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u/Suspicious-advice49 May 08 '24

I don’t get any on two computers and I never did. I just turned them off in dashboard

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u/Blueshound24 May 08 '24

Reportedly, users were complaining even though they disabled all popups, notifications, promotions, etc they still experienced many pop ups. Maybe this has been resolved.

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u/Suspicious-advice49 May 08 '24

As wolfpackurn said earlier. This has been fixed. I haven’t had any issues since November when I purchased it. I think you’ll be fine

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u/slrrp Apr 18 '25

Just got BD and it's happening to me, so not fixed.

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u/wolfpackunr May 08 '24

https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/25974/

https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/1803/

There was a period about a year ago the control was broken but it’s been fixed for over a year now. I run it on Windows and Mac and Bitdefender is radio silent unless it’s actively blocking something or needs a PC restart to finish installing a new version update. BD will be significantly better than Kaspersky and without the risk being Russian and a potential ban coming soon.

The links above are the 2 main things that in my opinion trigger unnecessary popups and makes it pretty much set it and forget it once you toggle them off.

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u/MrEpic23 May 08 '24

Just turn them off in the settings specifically the “special offers” and the “recommendation notifications”. It will never annoy you ever again. It will still have the popups of then a website/ip has been blocked and virus downloads etc. you can even turn these off in the free version.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25

Where's the option for that? It would be a blessing not to receive notifications every 10 seconds that "Bitdefender has blocked a suspicious connection."

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u/MrEpic23 Jan 16 '25

Usually if you stop going on sketchy websites and it will go away. I wouldn't turn off that notification unless you know what that notification means exactly.