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- Cloud services can be turned off in program settings, if you feel the urge to do so
- I don’t see what’s so obtrusive about a permanent connection - I would see a new connection every minute more obtrusive (more overhead etc.)
- Thinking that it’s enough to get virus definition updates every 8 hours is naive. The malware world is much more dynamic than that - a webpage gets compromised, turned into redirection and landing pages - and those pages last for a few hours or less. So the definitions you get after 8 hours are useless (the blocked pages don’t exist anymore anyway), and you were not protected during the few hours that actually mattered. So yes, the continuous updates are very important.
Anyway, good luck with BitDefender 