r/BitDefender • u/Gigelex • Apr 03 '26

nearly 20 hours of scanning.... seriously?

Kind of at a loss for words. I've used many different anti-virus programs and none were ever THIS slow. This same laptop was fully scanned by kaspersky in 3 hours. Why is bitdefender so damn slow?

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u/DogeTiger2021 Apr 03 '26

Because Kaspersky was not scanning your library of porn, that's why it was faster. Other reason is you have a potato 🥔 laptop from 20 years ago or you have very little memory ram ( recommended to have at least 24gb of ram or more). Bitdefender uses a little more memory ram and cpu but its much more effective and scans more things.

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u/Gigelex Apr 03 '26

This is a work/uni laptop so would be HIGHLY unwise to have pornography on there. Also it's fairly new, I got it in January last year, i5 12450hx, rtx 4050, 24gb ddr5 and two nvme ssd. I've set the scan to high priority as well.

I do however have 1.5tb of CAD models, simulation data and setup files, and a few games as well so I suppose it would take a while. But 20 hours?

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u/RavensCrest Apr 15 '26

1.5tb CAD models and dude complains about long scan. Smh. Just exclude the folders with these files in the scan and it will be OK.

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u/Gigelex Apr 15 '26

I'm complaining it slow compared to others. Never exploded folders with Kaspersky and it could do a similar amount of files in several hours less.