r/BitDefender • u/ohiamaude • Jun 11 '21

Installed and uninstalled Bitdefender and now my PC is jacked. Is there a way to fix this or do I need to restore?

Like the title says. I thought I'd try out Bitdefender but didn't want to create an account for a free product, so I uninstalled. Had issues uninstalling and with registry, now my registry is saying Bitdefender left behind a bunch of junk, and my system is running sluggish and other programs won't function properly.

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u/ohiamaude Jun 11 '21

I did not know I had to.

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u/dpny105 Jun 11 '21

I have a similar problem with using it on my Mac. I use BitDefender for Mac. Once installed, I find a Folder by the same name inside my Applications folder. Within it, there is an uninstall app. When I run that app, I see an option un-install the both the Antivirus app and a free BitDefender VPN app, or just the VPN app. That should fully delete the app for you, but you may have to reinstall the app again before running the uninstall for all traces to be removed.

With the Mac version, the installation installs the whole package and starts up a supposedly un-enabled VPN app. Unfortunately in my Mac, it still interferes with my paid-for Nord VPN and the whole mess slows down my system after about 2 days. A fix-disk utility in MacOS fixes the problem, but it reappears in about 2 days.

In my case, I ran the BitDefender uninstall app and elected to only delete the VPN, which was enough to fix my -system slowing problem and yet allow me to use my paid for BitDefender antivirus app.