To ensure you do this, it pops up notification messages when you visit online banking websites. You can still view weekly security reports from the “Activity” pane in Bitdefender’s interface, if you like.īitdefender wants you to use its own built-in browser, known as “Bitdefender Safepay,” to perform online banking and other transactions.

Disable the “Notify me when a new Security Report is available” and “Display notifications with special offers” options here. To disable these, click the gear-shaped Settings icon at the bottom left corner of the Bitdefender window. In Autopilot mode, Bitdefender will automatically configure itself and won’t show popups or notifications.Įven after you enable Autopilot mode, Bitdefender will display weekly “Security Report” notifications and “special offers” for other Bitdefender products. Now deselect Download newly available updates in the background.To ensure Bitdefender automatically does its job in the background and makes security decisions without bothering you with popups, ensure the “Autopilot” slider is enabled.You can also deselect Install app updates.Check the box beside Install system data files and security updates.You could also choose to stop your Mac from automatically installing macOS updates, but still install security updates. How to stop automatic updates – apart from security updates However, your Mac will still install macOS updates, along with other app updates and system data files and security updates. This will stop the notifications from appearing.

Now deselect the box beside Download newly available updates in the background.

Check the box beside Automatically check for updates – it should have a tick in it as should the four options below that….

Now select the box Install macOS updates.

Check the box beside Download new updates when available.

If you’d rather not leave your Mac open to threats you could turn off the nagging messages and have the updates happen automatically. How to stop seeing update alerts – but update anyway

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