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"Protection Not Up To Date" tray notification despite Protection permanently disabled - how to stop??

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This annoying bug present since introduction of Cyber Protect, and not fixed in new update. 

I use Bitdefender in Windows 11 Pro for protection, and per Acronis warning, I have permanently disabled Acronis Protection to avoid conflict. But every few days, the Acronis tray icon shows a notification that "Protection is not up to date". It is annoying - I always have to check that it isn't telling me one of my backups failed.

Why is it even checking protection update status if Protection is permanently disabled?

I enabled Protection long enough to allow me to try "automatically update Protection" checked and unchecked (which cannot be accessed while disabled) - neither eliminates the  notifications. 

If I enable Protection and manually update, the notification goes away until the next update is released a few days later,

How to get rid of this??

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I have not seen this issue and also have all Protection turned off permanently!

One key difference that may be in play here is that before turning off Protection, I opened the Protection Settings and on the Advanced page I also turned off the option to check for updates automatically!

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Steve Smith wrote:

I have not seen this issue and also have all Protection turned off permanently!

One key difference that may be in play here is that before turning off Protection, I opened the Protection Settings and on the Advanced page I also turned off the option to check for updates automatically!

 I know this is an old thread, but I also had this issue as the OP. I did as you said Steve and this worked for me. I reactivated the protection and unchecked the box to check for updates automatically then deactivated the protection. So just wanted to confirm this is the solution. Thanks for the tip!
 

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If you're running the latest version and are not using the Acronis protection, I suggest not installing the protection features.

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Interesting, I am doing the 30-day trial then I am going to purchase the $49.99 version. When I do this I guess I will have the option to do this. Or should I just reinstall the trial and not install the protection? I did see the option to not install it. I saw the option to just manually turn it off and went with that. I guess that is not a good idea.

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Chris, you should be able to use the Windows Setting/Apps and there will be a Modify option. From that you can deselect the protection stuff and just leave the backup capability.

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Thank you BrunoC. You were a great help. Protection has been removed.

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Glad you got it going, Cris. It isn't always obvious that the component can be uninstalled or not chosen for initial install. That's new with the latest version.