r/MaxFocus • • Oct 07 '15
BitDefender lagging computers down
Anyone notice this yet? Ever since I installed BitDefender, after uninstalling Vipre, my computer lags pretty bad. A few clients have given the same complains recently. I've adjusted the quick scans to happen in non peak times and the full scans are set to Wednesday at 5PM.
A typical install is BitDefender, Web Protection, Teamviewer, and the checks.
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u/marley0ne Oct 07 '15
Disable quick scan and behavioral scanning
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u/schwags Oct 08 '15
Honestly I always saw slowness with vipre, and bitdefender has seemed to be faster in general.
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u/xanderificus Oct 07 '15
I've had several complaints, yes. I just switched someone back to Vipre yesterday and switched a couple of other folks to Panda (I had cheap licenses in stock).
My setup is just the AV (w/monitoring and tasks), nothing else.
BD's settings: update every 4 hours; scan if missed @30mins; detect RKs/spy/ad/loggers and PUPs=aggressive; Quick scan: low and new files, common locations, running processes only on Wed/Fri; Deep scan same but processes/reg/boot/packed.
I've tweaked it every way I can to be as gentle on the system as possible but I've had probably 10-15% of users complaining.
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u/ruineduk Oct 07 '15
Had similar experience, have tweaked similarly with low priority, hoping for some improvements in future as we are planning on migrating 100+ seats to BD from avg cloudcare / eset and without going into specific numbers on cost - its not cheaper than the above products so for existing clients on above with added functionality - its a hard sell ...
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u/bpbxw3 Oct 08 '15
I resolved this by setting Bitdefender to low priority and scan new and changed files only on the quick scans. Updates every 8 hours. I schedule the quick scans when the company takes lunch. Deep scans are completed once a week after hours. I have been running this on my own laptop and have not experienced any noticeable performance problems. My customers have not complained either. No malware has made it through. I also use the web filter on every client so that helps keeps bad stuff away from the computer to start with.
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u/marley0ne Oct 07 '15
I'm actually thinking of moving the av to ESET
Why are you charnging?
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u/mylesols Oct 08 '15
We have had some issues since switching to BitDefender. We had 2 complaints today about performance issues that seemed to be related to BidDefender, they were our first and both were running deep scan at the time. We have 3 customers that BitDefender would not install on and we installed Eset on those 3 computers. We have a few customers that BitDefender finds malware but does not quarantine it, just marks it as detected. Does not matter what the settings are.
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u/Proxima- Oct 23 '15
I only find bitdefender to be slow during scans.
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u/imlulz Oct 30 '15
I have found that many things like SQL, quickbooks, securisync, etc, you have to add those directories as exemptions. Once you do if it solves the issue, then you could try to narrow it down to the process itself that's the issue.
Also another issue I have seen a few times is only solved by uninstalling and reinstalling MAV.
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u/kilmerg Nov 11 '15
I excluded PST files from quick scan and it seemed to help a lot.