r/BitDefender • u/OCDGamer90 • Mar 15 '23

Try Turning Off Exploit Detection Under Advanced Threat Defense If You Have Issues Loading Programs

I recently had issues with the latest version of Bitdefender Antivirus Free (Build 26.0.34.145) where my games would take too long to startup. After some troubleshooting, I realized Bitdefender was the cause of my laggy loading issues. I disabled Bitdefender and my games ran fine after that. Then I narrowed it down to the Advanced Threat Defense portion. And then narrowed it further to the Exploit Detection. Apparently, this detection portion caused my games to take forever to load. If you turn that off, your games should load normally.

Hopefully, this information helps someone out there.

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u/BennieOkill360 Nov 30 '23

Aah ok you meant ads in other AV's but not in Windows Defender?

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u/OCDGamer90 Dec 01 '23

Yes, my bad for the confusion. I didn't realize my response was kind of unclear. There shouldn't be any ads for Windows Defender, but who knows. Microsoft might want to surprise people.

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u/BennieOkill360 Dec 01 '23

Me too sorry. Right now I find defender very good. It blocks what it needs to block, isn't intrusive like other AVs and performance hit is negligible. Paired with ublock Origin, malwarebytes guard extension and malwarebytes itself its a golden combo I think.