I’m experiencing an issue with BitDefender that has been occurring since I purchased and installed it (digital copy) a few weeks ago. My computer has slowed way down since installing the product, and my internet access is also affected. When I click on any icon or start any program there is often a 15-30 delay before the program actually opens. When I open Chrome it takes the 15-30 seconds, plus whatever webpage it’s trying to load will either time out or take a really long time to load. Once whatever program is started it seems to run OK, with the occasional hiccup. While these delays are occurring, there aren’t any other obvious things running, and there is no disk access happening. It’s like everything is just hanging in limbo until something times out and it goes on its merry way.
If I uninstall BitDefender the problem disappears. It reappears when I reinstall the product. I tried this twice.
My system is running Windows 8 64-bit on 16GB or RAM, 4.8ghz I7 processor.
I downloaded and ran the Bitdefender support tool that I saw in another thread while I was researching the problem. I tried to attach it to this post, but it said I'm "not permitted to upload this type of file."
Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.