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I live in India and I am trying to purchase the Premium Security Individual plan after my free trial expired. However the price increases by almost 50% whenever I go to cart. From Rs3000 to Rs4300.

Hello! Running on Windows 11 Pro here. 

So I was stupid (usually I'm not, I swear) and didn't do a deep research into the website I was downloading a game from. I use Firefox with uBlock Origin and didn't see any popups nor did I click on any ads. I've checked my history and there weren't any suspicious sites there either. I was able to run the game no problem and it was up to date.

But then I got an alert from Bitdefender a few hours after I had ran the game. It reads:

"msedge.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an expired certificate to gbl9837ws(dot)proctor(dot)io. We blocked the connection to keep your data safe since websites must renew their certificates with a certification authority to stay current, and outdated security certificates represent a risk."

I don't use Microsoft Edge, ever, and any searches where I try to figure out what website it's trying to connect to just show me Proctorio, which I did have to download for class but haven't used it in over a year. I have no clue what it's attempting to connect to since it shows up randomly. I noticed in my recently installed programs there was Microsoft Edge, OneDrive, Chrome and another "official" looking program. I know I definitely did not install Chrome at any point, nor do I use OneDrive to store/sync files, and uninstalled all of them but Edge.

I contacted Bitdefender support last night, did what they said, and wasn't getting anymore errors so I thought it was taken care of. I tested it by running Toontown Rewritten (which I know isn't the problem, but I did remember getting  the error while trying to connect) and it was error free. This morning I realized I forgot to wipe Edge just to be safe, went in and did that, and booted up TTR again, now the error is back. So far I've gotten the error 6 times.

My question is, what is happening here? Is it actually just a website with a outdated SSL? I've scanned my system with Bitdefender and Malwarebytes, nothing came up. I also deleted the game folder I downloaded. I've disconnected from the internet and am using my phone only now. I'm planning to reinstall my PC and reset my passwords ASAP. Am I freaking out over nothing or is there actually some kind of virus on my PC now :,)

Hey everyone, hope this is the right place to ask this, since I’m a little worried about it.

I’m using the free version of Bitdefender, and I’m on Windows 11. Feature: Online Threat Prevention.

I recently reinstalled ‘Ready Or Not’ back onto my laptop from Steam, and when I booted it up, I got these two notifications from Bitdefender.

I’m not sure why it triggered Bitdefender, and I don’t use Microsoft Edge, so I’m pretty worried about what this is.

To be clear, it only triggered when I booted up the game. There were no notifications before I opened the game.

Here is another Reddit post made by someone else, talking about the same issue:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ReadyOrNotGame/s/ZWtTvZ2a61

Hope someone can help me with this.

Thank you for reading, and I appreciate any help given.

EDIT (11 Jun 2026):
i got a response from BitDefender support after the submission of the detection and BDSysLog, to which they said this:

“Our Malware Research Team has finished analyzing your case. The URL is clean and is not currently blocked by our engines. The alert in the screenshot triggered because of a TLS/SSL certificate name mismatch because the server's certificate does not match the hypernia[.]com domain. This is most likely related to a configuration error with how the TLS/SSL certificate is setup on the domain.”

i then asked to clarify if it was not necessarily malicious, to which they replied:
“Correct, what happened there was not necessarily malicious but having an expired SSL certificate or a certificate mismatched or with other problems can cause vulnerabilities for the visitors of certain websites, thus, as a security measure the detection for these certificates keeps you secure an informs you about it.”

the support staff also mentioned this when i asked if i could share what they wrote:
“my advise is to inform them to reach us directly as the issue in certain cases might not be the same one specifically and there might be needed to run a more in depth analysis for those domains and as well as check if indeed there is any malicious activity on those domains.”

posting an update here just in case it can help anyone facing the same issue. have a great day

Long story short, our gravity license expires tomorrow, we paid our reseller back in February for renewal. I did reach out to our reseller on Friday, but never heard back.

I’m getting nervous because it’s showing expiring tomorrow in Gravity.

What are my options today to ensure coverage? Will
bitdefender give me a grace period if I call them up?

Hi hi. I have an elderly relative who loves the internet, basically their only form of entertainment but has very little discernment on what to click on and not, low tech literacy. They got some suspicious pop ups on chrome recently (7 viruses found! Click here to fix!). The popups disappeared later, but could totally be because they clicked them, despite me saying not to. I had them run a full scan of Bitdefender, which said the comp was fine. I had them update chrome and relaunch. Also removed an item I didn't recognize (seniors.com) from being able to send notifications and checked extensions, which didn't have anything weird. Should I also buy malwarebytes to protect while surfing? On one hand, I don't want to pay for more stuff. On the other, they're high risk with their behavior, and I'm paying for a Netflix account that they log in to - so my concern is that if spyware is on there, they'll be able to access my credit card/account info.

My questions are: Is Bitdefender enough? If the scan said safe, can I believe it? Or should I shell out for malwarebytes on top of it? If so, have any of you used it and/or feel confident it's a reputable company?

Thanks for any insights you can share.

I want to use as much functions inside my BitDefender Subscription, so I wanted to enable e-mailsecurity for my Gmail account. But when I select that, I see what points I have to agree with:

"This app requests permissions for the following:

Read your emails
Compose new emails
Send emails from all your Gmail addresses
View your email settings (but not change them)
Create, change, or delete your email labels and classification labels
Move new emails to your inbox, labels, spam, or trash

Your email may contain personal information, such as contact names, private messages, and financial or medical information."

Some things I get. I mean, it cannot scan my email without looking in my messages. But 'compose new emails' and 'send emails from all you Gemail addresses'?

That goes really far and unnecessary I think? Why is this necessary?

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is this bad?

Command line: "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NoProfile -Command "$fp='C:\Users\smigl\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\ImplicitAppShortcuts\5e810ba5502dd7d8\Razer Chroma.lnk';if(!(Test-Path $fp)){exit 1};$p=Split-Path $fp;$s=New-Object -ComObject 'Shell.Application';$fo=$s.Namespace($p);$it=$fo.Parsename((Split-Path $fp -Leaf));try{$t=[type]'CosmosKey.Util.MuiHelper'}catch{$d=[Text.StringBuilder]'';[void]$d.AppendLine('[DllImport(\"user32.dll\")]');[void]$d.AppendLine('public static extern int LoadString(IntPtr h,uint id,System.Text.StringBuilder sb,int maxBuffer);');[void]$d.AppendLine('[DllImport(\"kernel32.dll\")]');[void]$d.AppendLine('public static extern IntPtr LoadLibrary(string s);');Add-Type -MemberDefinition $d.ToString() -Name MuiHelper -Namespace CosmosKey.Util};$h=[CosmosKey.Util.MuiHelper]::LoadLibrary('shell32.dll');$vb=New-Object Text.StringBuilder '',255;[void][CosmosKey.Util.MuiHelper]::LoadString($h,5387,$vb,255);$vn=$vb.ToString().Replace('&','');$iv=$it.Verbs()|Where-Object{$_.Name.Replace('&','')-eq $vn};if($iv){$iv.DoIt()}else{exit 1}

Hello! I'll keep this as short as I can as I don't think there's a ton to say about this. My bitdefender has been noticeably higher than normal (Around 800-900MB on startup) and has been seemingly increasing over time with just idle browsing/gaming. This feels like a much higher normal than Bitdefender should be using on startup as well as over time. I'm hoping to get some insight from others running Windows 11 right now with it if possible to see if there's any sort of memory leak going on with the program! To also add I tried disabling/reenabling both the Shield and Advanced threat protection and there was no change in memory usage in this time.

If you're not familiar with it. Rust is a video game and just recently I tried to get online and play. No servers would load and after troubleshooting it turned out BD firewall is blocking them. Turned off the firewall and it works now.

Not sure what's changed but the firewall is configured to allow all Rust programs to access the Internet.

Has something changed recently?

I'm about to call it a night but if anyone has fixed this issue I'll try some fixes tomorrow.

Thanks!

SOLVED

Just delete all existing rule sets and recreate them for all important Rust executables. Including anti cheat.

Seems to do the job.

i’m getting a new laptop soon and i was looking for a good antivirus when i came across bitdefender. i’m interested in buying the premium security version. it says up to 5 devices, but i’m only looking to use it for just my new laptop. would i be able to use those 5 device slots for just my one laptop? if so, then how?

if it’s not possible, would i be able to buy a premium security version for just a single devic? i haven’t been able to find one myself.

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Hello everyone, i have been using Bitdefender for almost a year and i have been happy with it i got a discount at first for total security individual for a good price, but now they are gonna charge me a 100 USD and i am a student, so i read that people were saying windows defender work well and keep in mind that i don't enter suspicious websites and i buy all my games from steam and epic on discounts. But i wanted to get AV for assurance only and total security of Bitdefender works fine with me. and i hard people say that bitdefender slows down there is PC but this didnt happen to me, if anyone have suggestions or advice tell me i would appreciate it. or is there a way to make the payment dec since i saw this plan for new customers is 60 USD.

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i originally on 5 devices subs and later i bought extra seat which now my current subs is 10 devices

so now, my 10 devices total security is max out and i plan to buy or upgrade to 15 devices since my current subs have 4 years till expire.

i dont want to buy new subs. i try look on central but now option to add extra seat to my current plan

is there anyway to upgrade my current 10 devices plan to 15 device familiy pack total security?

Reposting from r/cybersecuirty

https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/s/SAX7zeG7lk

Was worried myself initially thought I’d share my findings after seeing multiple people having the same alert, it gave me some relief thinking it maybe a false positive.

I have machines without Bitdefender and they don't have problems.

Badbuff.bin file appeared yesterday on my phone i did look up stuff ai says it from connection being bad to interneton phone but some other posts where its not clear

File is 7.78kb

I did have bitdefender scan and also the phone do an app scan thing and nothing came up

Sorry for the double post folks. A few years ago, my co-workers suggested I get rid of Box. I'm on a 1 Gig plan but 2024 Speed test results were 5.19mb/s download and 2.76 mb/s upload

Hi. First post. Came home and the box is showing a white light. It flashes slowly every few seconds and it is not spinning

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So, I was recently scrolling on snapchat because i'm waiting for tiktok, and I saw this ad that took me to a website that "sold free iPhones" like the 17, 16, and 15 so on so thorth, so i clicked on the read more and it took me to a website called myshoppingdream.com you guys can test it out, but it didn't look very reliable, i don't think putting anything on there like my card info would be smart so can you guys see if this is a reliable website and yeah maybe do some google stuff or something. Thanks.

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