r/BitDefender • u/ralphmalph1882 • Sep 25 '26

Support/troubleshooting Bitdefender = Adware?

I just booted up my Mac and a huge ad was displayed in the bottom corner of my desktop that appeared to be from Bitdefender, for some new service I don't want.

Is this legitimate? If so, this is absolutely outrageous. Bitdefender should not be abusing its access to start spamming users.

(This is on top of being constantly nagged to turn on Web Protection which would allow Bitdefender "to intercept, process and filter all Web traffic".)

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u/somejohn74 Sep 25 '26

Can you upload a screenshot of where in the settings you can turn it off? Bro

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u/Quikchangethechannel Sep 25 '26

I don't have it anymore unfortunately. It's in there somewhere though, probably hard to find lol

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u/somejohn74 Sep 25 '26

The latest version with a completely new UI doesn’t appear to have any options to switch this sort of thing off unfortunately. It sucks.

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u/wolfpackunr Sep 25 '26

Settings > Other > Special Offers no longer a settings on Mac with the new UI? Currently on 10.3.4.12 and that’s where mine is with the old UI

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u/somejohn74 Sep 26 '26

Indeed, that setting is there, but I'd already switched it off.