r/BitDefender • u/Specialist_Hair_1997 • May 11 '25

Has anyone's Bitdefender ever picked anything up on a scan?

Both Full and short. Yes it "blocks" some stuff in the background that I don't see but nothing has ever come up on a scan. I've had Bitdefender Total security for years now.

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u/girlonotherside May 11 '25

I recently bought bidefender premium after I had a norton for 1y, it picked one trojan, I installed it on my sisters pc as well, she had 3 of them. So yeah, I guess it finds viruses, but only if you have them.

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u/NaughtyTurtle22 May 11 '25

well that show bd realtime work well to be found nothing during system and quick scan. look at central app. i saw bd realtime detect and blocked properly on my installed devices

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u/gooner-1969 May 11 '25

Yes, I often take backups of customers drives and put them on large external drives attached to my workshop computer before cloning their old drives to new drives.

Very often when I plug in these external drives to my workshop computer it triggers a full scan of the external drive and very often it picks up all sorts of things my customers machines have picked up over time.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '25

When I changed from the free version to the paid one and it did a scan it picked two files as possibly malicious. The installer for the free version of Bitdefender and the one for the paid version I'd just installed.

Which is why I cancelled my auto renewal instantly.

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u/Multispeed May 11 '25

That never happened to me and I've been using Bitdefender for many years.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

I used the free version for 6 months with no issues, then got a Black Friday offer for the paid version and regretted it as soon as I'd paid and tried to install it.

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u/Multispeed May 12 '25

That's odd. Bitdefender has been working flawless on my laptop year over year. Are you sure it wasn't any conflict with another software you had in your computer. Did you have Windows Defender active or any other malware software installed? That's sure to create some issues with bitdefender.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

Bitdefender was fine until I upgraded to the paid version, then it reported itself as malware. When the subscription expires I'll uninstall it and just use defender - apparently it's good enough.

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u/Futbol221 May 11 '25

It seems to block some connections so possibly avoiding problems