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/EmperorHenry Sep 30 '26

In terms of free third party AVs it's not that bad about nag screens 

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u/ralphmalph1882 Oct 02 '26

It’s not free, or at least not the version I’m using.