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May 14, 2026
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Constant reactivation requests - Bitdefender causing

  • May 14, 2026
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Bitdefender is somehow causing multiple requests for activation of Turbotax2025.  I followed all the 'fixes' on many posts including turning off Bitdefender firewall and Virus Protection and adding exclusion to Bitdefender Firewall to multiple Intuit files.  Nothing worked until I removed Bitdefender from my computer.  I was able to get Turbotax2025 to work and then I declined updates and I was able to log off and then back on for a few times declining the update.  This got me through April 15th but today I tried logging on and I got the activation message again.  I don't really want to go through removing Bitdefender and reinstalling every time I want to use Turbotax.  There must be some way to stop Bitdefender from blocking Turbotax short of uninstalling Bitdefender.

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    Employee Tax Expert
    May 18, 2026

    Troubleshoot TurboTax Desktop for Windows issues (or MAC) has several things you can try to see if they assist.

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