It just keeps escalating it's memory usage and never releases any of it, causing my browser to spout out-of-memory errors, or cause system-wide stutters when I share my screen with friends, or simply bluescreen with the error citing memory problems.
Searching around online only brings me to threads that are either pretending that this isn't a serious problem with bitdefender or simply offers the solution "just restart your computer lol."
Is my only course of action to abandon this AV? This is completely unacceptable behavior and the only way to keep it at bay is to reboot, which only restarts the memory-climbing clock.