COVID: Sharing Internet safely

Access to the Internet has become both more important and more challenging for many in the time of COVID-19. People have a greater need for information — much of it available only via the web and Internet video. Videoconferencing and Internet chat are filling in for the real-life, face-to-face social interaction everyone needs to stay…

Stopping BitDefender from blocking your applications

BitDefender is a popular and reasonably effective security solution for Windows computers, but sometimes it gets things wrong and blocks you from using applications that don’t present any threat — applications you need to get the job done. Unfortunately, the BitDefender user interface can also make it difficult to fix this problem. It’s hard to…