New Update Bitdefender - BDTS updates

[Jonny Quest]

An update has been released for Bitdefender Home solutions - version 26.0.34.162 with the following notable changes:

• Adjustments for Wallet EOL
• Firewall alerts improvements
• Improved Alert Mode pop-up notification to not abbreviate app path

 

[EascapenMatrix]

I noticed two few features on Bitdefender App for Android.
1. App Abnormality Detection
2. Scan Download Files

According to the App Abnormality Detection seem to be some type of heuristics/behaviour detection. But I don't know what it is.

 

[Nightwalker]

Bitdefender no longer annoys you with its Automatic profile notification and the devs finally added a throttling mechanism for web protection notifications (no longer 150+ notifications just because it blocked a domain full of imagens for example, yay !).

All and all it is a winner, Bitdefender finally solved all the quirks that annoyed me for sometime, so for now I can recommend it for everyone, it finally just works.

 

[Jonny Quest]

Maybe before "unconditionally" recommending it, I may wait until the Wallet into Password Manager issue, the transition is resolved. Or, at least wait and see what the upcoming PM improvements may bring, especially as far as how many users per license.

edit: to those who would be new users, the Wallet issue, may not be an issue, until we know what is going to replace it in Safepay?

 

[blackice]

Bitdefender no longer annoys you with its Automatic profile notification and the devs finally added a throttling mechanism for web protection notifications (no longer 150+ notifications just because it blocked a domain full of imagens for example, yay !).

All and all it is a winner, Bitdefender finally solved all the quirks that annoyed me for sometime, so for now I can recommend it for everyone, it finally just works.

I had the same complaints. May be worth a try again.

 

[Trooper]

Bitdefender no longer annoys you with its Automatic profile notification and the devs finally added a throttling mechanism for web protection notifications (no longer 150+ notifications just because it blocked a domain full of imagens for example, yay !).

All and all it is a winner, Bitdefender finally solved all the quirks that annoyed me for sometime, so for now I can recommend it for everyone, it finally just works.

Good to hear.

 

[Harputlu]

Bitdefender no longer annoys you with its Automatic profile notification and the devs finally added a throttling mechanism for web protection notifications (no longer 150+ notifications just because it blocked a domain full of imagens for example, yay !).

All and all it is a winner, Bitdefender finally solved all the quirks that annoyed me for sometime, so for now I can recommend it for everyone, it finally just works.

Is Bitdefender ram usage still high?

 

[SumTingWong]

Is Bitdefender ram usage still high?

I have Bitdefender Free version, and its ram usage is in 500MB territory with occasionally 600MB RAM usage on a 64GB RAM computer.

 

[Trooper]

I have Bitdefender Free version, and its ram usage is in 500MB territory with occasionally 600MB RAM usage on a 64GB RAM computer.

Sounds about right. Maybe I need to test this again as well,.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Bitdefender no longer annoys you with its Automatic profile notification and the devs finally added a throttling mechanism for web protection notifications (no longer 150+ notifications just because it blocked a domain full of imagens for example, yay !).

All and all it is a winner, Bitdefender finally solved all the quirks that annoyed me for sometime, so for now I can recommend it for everyone, it finally just works.

But it still has quite a few bugs.
If automatic profile is turned on, it auto switches the focus away from the foreground app when a particular profile is turned on, changing the settings of the game profile doesn't save, it auto switches to work profile for apps like Notepad++, All office apps, email apps like Outlook and Thunderbird. There is no way to remove these apps from the work profile. Also by default, work profile turns off Bitdefender update as well as system update checkup. So it's absolutely terrible if someone uses one of these apps 24x7. These are not an issue if Automatic profile switch is off. I asked them to completely redesign their profile system, they said they acknowledge this request and may do something about it. Don't know if they will.

Apart from these, there are some malware removal issues that I reported to them twice and the last time they said that the devs are aware of it and will fix it in the next product update.

There are one more serious issue. I noticed that when I watch football matches on some of the free streaming sites, Bitdefender's ram usage keeps increasing little by little every couple of seconds. I'm not using Bitdefender right now and don't feel like installing it to record a log and report back to them.

 

[blackice]

But it still has quite a few bugs.
If automatic profile is turned on, it auto switches the focus away from the foreground app when a particular profile is turned on, changing the settings of the game profile doesn't save, it auto switches to work profile for apps like Notepad++, All office apps, email apps like Outlook and Thunderbird. There is no way to remove these apps from the work profile. Also by default, work profile turns off Bitdefender update as well as system update checkup. So it's absolutely terrible if someone uses one of these apps 24x7. These are not an issue if Automatic profile switch is off. I asked them to completely redesign their profile system, they said they acknowledge this request and may do something about it. Don't know if they will.

Apart from these, there are some malware removal issues that I reported to them twice and the last time they said that the devs are aware of it and will fix it in the next product update.

There are one more serious issue. I noticed that when I watch football matches on some of the free streaming sites, Bitdefender's ram usage keeps increasing little by little every couple of seconds. I'm not using Bitdefender right now and don't feel like installing it to record a log and report back to them.

This reminded me that every time I’ve used Bitdefender I end up just turning off automatic profiles. I also forgot it does some funny business with power plans on its own.

Also the Epic Games launcher caused the game profile to run constantly.

 

[SeriousHoax]

This reminded me that every time I’ve used Bitdefender I end up just turning off automatic profiles. I also forgot it does some funny business with power plans on its own.

Yeah, it still does, and you can not change the settings to make it not do it. It's a long known bug reported by many users, but they haven't managed to fix it yet.

Also the Epic Games launcher caused the game profile to run constantly.

Ow, I was not aware of this.

 

[blackice]

Ow, I was not aware of this.

It may be fixed by now, it's been more than a year since I tried it. But, I reported it and they said they couldn't replicate it. Certain launchers seemed to trigger game mode and the only way to turn game mode off was close those launchers. But, I prefer my games to auto update since I have little free time to wait for a download.

 

[mlnevese]

This may be a bug with Epic client though. It usually turns on my laptop's GeforceRTX chip even while I'm on Windows, for instance. Bitdefender may be seeing that as a game running.

 

[blackice]

This may be a bug with Epic client though. It usually turns on my notebook's GeforceRTX chip even while I'm on Windows, for instance. Bitdefender may be seeing that as a game running.


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Interesting. I was on a 3070 at the time. I now have an AMD card (currently RMA'd). Maybe worth seeing what it does with that when I get it back. What application are you using to see that GPU activity?

 

[mlnevese]

Interesting. I was on a 3070 at the time. I now have an AMD card (currently RMA'd). Maybe worth seeing what it does with that when I get it back. What application are you using to see that GPU activity?

It's part of NVidia drivers when you install on a laptop.

 

[Nightwalker]

But it still has quite a few bugs.
If automatic profile is turned on, it auto switches the focus away from the foreground app when a particular profile is turned on, changing the settings of the game profile doesn't save, it auto switches to work profile for apps like Notepad++, All office apps, email apps like Outlook and Thunderbird. There is no way to remove these apps from the work profile. Also by default, work profile turns off Bitdefender update as well as system update checkup. So it's absolutely terrible if someone uses one of these apps 24x7. These are not an issue if Automatic profile switch is off. I asked them to completely redesign their profile system, they said they acknowledge this request and may do something about it. Don't know if they will.

Apart from these, there are some malware removal issues that I reported to them twice and the last time they said that the devs are aware of it and will fix it in the next product update.

There are one more serious issue. I noticed that when I watch football matches on some of the free streaming sites, Bitdefender's ram usage keeps increasing little by little every couple of seconds. I'm not using Bitdefender right now and don't feel like installing it to record a log and report back to them.

Thanks for sharing your experience, I didnt know that it was so bugged, at least it isnt so "annoying" anymore, I will keep watching for those quirks, but for now so far so good in my machine.

Ps: I will keep Automatic profile off, too much of hassle even now.

 

[blackice]

Thanks for sharing your experience, I didnt know that it was so bugged, at least it isnt so "annoying" anymore, I will keep watching for those quirks, but for now so far so good in my machine.

Ps: I will keep Automatic profile off, too much of hassle even now.

For what it’s worth I tested auto profiles on and off extensively for gaming and found zero performance difference other than the potential it pulls an update while you’re playing.

 

[Trident]

For what it’s worth I tested auto profiles on and off extensively for gaming and found zero performance difference other than the potential it pulls an update while you’re playing.

The profiles perform very light optimisations like switching alerts off, postponing Windows updates and modifying the sleep/screen shutdown & brightness settings. They are more meant to eliminate annoyances than to boost anything.

Nothing that can’t be achieved manually.

 

[Jonny Quest]

More regarding Profiles can be found here, thanks to member Gjoksi's excellent work:

'Update check interval' schedule is being ignored

BitDefender Internet Security (Paid version), Build 26.0.27.90, Engine version:

community.bitdefender.com

'Update check interval' schedule is being ignored

BitDefender Internet Security (Paid version), Build 26.0.27.90, Engine version:

community.bitdefender.com