[duplicate] Vsserv.exe Resource Hog Work Around

sjvmi87

After getting no support from the "support" line I started mucking around with BD2010 on my own. I had complained repeatedly about how vsserv.exe would commandeer my memory resources and my machine would seize for up to 25 minutes at a time (would have been more but I rebooted the machine.)

Anyway, ON MY OWN I figured out that disabling the "antiphishing protection" releases a HUGE chunk of memory. When I am running with antiphishing enabled, I am watching vsserv monopolize anywhere from 85-97% of my memory- which at 8 GB is a pretty extensive level of processing. When I kill the antiphishing protection, I am able to get vsserv back into a tolerable 12-14% range.

Not a solution but at least it will work until BitDefender decides to do something besides apologize with a form letter and send me the link to the uninstall file.

(How about it, BD? Are you going to delete this message too?)

john bull

After getting no support from the "support" line I started mucking around with BD2010 on my own. I had complained repeatedly about how vsserv.exe would commandeer my memory resources and my machine would seize for up to 25 minutes at a time (would have been more but I rebooted the machine.)

Anyway, ON MY OWN I figured out that disabling the "antiphishing protection" releases a HUGE chunk of memory. When I am running with antiphishing enabled, I am watching vsserv monopolize anywhere from 85-97% of my memory- which at 8 GB is a pretty extensive level of processing. When I kill the antiphishing protection, I am able to get vsserv back into a tolerable 12-14% range.

Not a solution but at least it will work until BitDefender decides to do something besides apologize with a form letter and send me the link to the uninstall file.

(How about it, BD? Are you going to delete this message too?)

Well done sjvmi87. You raise a vital point that affects everybody using BD, but NOBODY cares to comment or provide a solution.

Well buddy, we make an Army of TWO here, because BD hogs so much of my memory that my PC either slows down to a snails pace or makes me wait several minutes to grow older until the memory takes a breather.

I will explore your anti-phishing trick and dump it down the pan, see how that works.

In the meantime I have found an offer that BD cannot refuse - I have changed MSCONFIG to disable all the BD items - and do you know what ? It works a treat, BD is now in Limbo-land and my memory looks great.

I never intended to use BD as a real-time program, only to use it completely MANUAL as a sweeper. My primary AV and security protection is provided by another software.

Good luck buddy - I do hope some dedicated reader will post a resolution to this problem, if not, then you have no anti-phishing protection and I have NO BD.

John Bull