Issue With Bitdefender And Ssd

Hy Everyone!

I have a simple question to the more experienced Bitdefender users: I've tried the free antivirus version few days ago.

I liked it very much: fast, simple, effective. But i found a major issue: the "virus shield" function runs, and scans the files continuously, it never stops.

This is a major problem for me, cause' I'm using an SSD. In the one hour while i tried it, 5gig of reading, and 1 gig of writing was made, which is not really good for the SSD's lifetime.

I'd really want to buy the full version for my PC's, but this issue is holding me back.

I hope i was understandable:) Can some advise? I would be very grateful!!

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ram1220

You can turn off auto scan. It will stop scanning the drive all the time.

graciliano

You can turn off auto scan. It will stop scanning the drive all the time.

The Virus Shield and the Auto Scan have different switches. The Virus Shield makes the antivirus monitor all file activities and web access. I believe this is the standard behavior of any antivirus with active protection. If you turn it off your system would not be (actively) protected. The Auto Scan schedules periodic (not constant!) scans to the file system. Some may consider this redundant, however it is advertised as a time and resource saver. Thus I strongly advise not to turn it off. You can actually check if any automated scan is in progress, but it will almost always report it is idle.

Since you are concerned about disk activities, I noticed Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition seems to keep constant log of it's activities. I believe this is similar to other security solutions.

When I monitored my system with Windows Task Manager I did noticed that normally Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition showed regular but minor disk activity which may have been often slightly more than that of my separate firewall solution.* However the activity remained almost always lower than that of the NT system & kernel. This activity ranged from 0.0 to 0.1 MB/s. Doing the math with the higher number: 1 hour times 0.1 MB/s gives 0.36 GB as an upper bound for the disk activity in one hour. But this appeared to be less than what the operating system does. So I do not think there is a problem and this seems consistent with this antivirus being advertised as feather-light... (meaning) ...practically NO IMPACT on your PC's performance.

But this was my system and my way of measuring the disk usage. I have no SSD.

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*My firewall's disk activity could peak at times beyond 10MB/s, but I did not noticed such behavior with Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition. I imagine the antivirus' disk activity would peak when updating, which could happen every hour.