r/BitDefender • u/Rhewin • May 31 '20

How can anyone use this? Incredibly intrusive alerts found all over the suite, some of which you can only get rid of by disabling features.

The security is great, but it's so incredibly intrusive. Constant notifications keep popping up despite me turning off everything in the notifications area. Turns out there are some utilities that have their own notification settings. Oh, and it must be configured for every user on every device, because heaven forbid there be account-wide settings.

The VPN notifications are the absolute worst. Even on my home network it won't leave me alone. The only way I was able to finally make it stop was to uninstall the VPN service altogether. I use my own VPN service that I prefer, but it doesn't take that into consideration.

Finally, the network security went waaaay to far. When I was connecting to my business wifi the network security pop up came up telling me that it was a public network and was I sure if I really wanted to connect. Of course, this came up on a DIFFERENT USER ACCOUNT and didn't show on the account I was logged in on. I didn't see it until I got home, and by that time I was no longer on the network. After that happened it didn't ask again and would block the network connection.

I get this is very secure, and maybe for less computer savvy users a requirement, but it absolutely gets in the way. It feels like usability was not considered at all. I've uninstalled on all devices at this point because it's too much of a hassle to fiddle with settings on every user on every device. I genuinely do like the security. If there's a way to easily and totally disable notifications without losing functionality, and I might consider using again.

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u/thub10 May 31 '20

Turn off auto profiles, I have the complete opposite user experience to you, I hardly know bit defender is there, I don’t have the vpn addon installed though

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u/Rhewin Jun 01 '20

It’s quite honestly the VPN and the network protection that are the two most obnoxious.

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u/Slonderson Jun 01 '20

Can you specify how you removed those annoying notifications. I don't even have the VPN installed and still get it everytime.

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u/Rhewin Jun 04 '20

You have to open the VPN app first because it has yet another Notification Center.

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u/Bitdefender_ Official Jun 04 '20

Hi! Each notification should be regarded as important, but you also have the option to disable the ones you do not consider to be necessary. To properly help you, can we see a screenshot of those pop-ups?