AV Full scan causing memory exhaustion

Anyone else experiencing a memory leak issue during full AV scans? I have 6 Windows servers in my environment that during a full scan, 15-20 minutes into the scan, commit bytes for the epsecurityservice process start creeping up and soon uses all available virtual memory, until the server is unresponsive and must be hard reset. We are running latest version of the scanner/definitions. Windows are patched, 2012 to 2019 versions. Windows Defender is disabled. One server is a simple file server and the rest are SQL\IIS. I have been working with support for longer than a month, sending logs and process dumps, running scans with troubleshooting command switches, and screenshots to no avail.

Any ideas?

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  • Hello @jfern7 and welcome to the Community!

    Based on your description of the situation encountered, I think the Technical Support Teams should be able to get to the bottom of this. I could not locate any interractions with our engineers when searching using your e-mail address and I presume you have used a different address than the one registered here.

    If you can PM me with the case number or e-mail address used, I can have a closer look.

    Stay safe.

    Premium Security & Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools user

  • Was this fixed? We seem to be having a similar issue. I've uninstalled and reinstalled to ensure we had the latest version, but it still seems to be taking up Memory.

  • Gjoksi
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    edited August 2022

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