derwin

If you kill that process, you won't be able to scan files anymore. It is indicated to keep it active all the time, since it doesn't consume too much RAM. Andrei I understand the consequences of killing it, I just wonder why an on-demand program would require a service running continually in the background. Derwin

Thanks for the response. Is there any need for this to be running all the time? I know I shouldn't kill it since I'll have to start it again if I want to scan, but why is it done this way in the first place? -Derwin bdss is the BitDefender Scan server. If you want to perform a scan (even a contextual-menu scan), this…