Bitdefender Business Client Running Very Slowly, Real-time Protection Settings and more Options

[AndreTheGiant]

Hello,

I have just recently pushed out BitDefender to one of my clients and I was having some issues specifically with the Client below:

1. I have been having some performance issues with the BitDefender Business Clients at the workstations because of the "Real-time protection". I have tried to lower what it is scanning but I was inquiring if anyone knew of any workarounds or common procedures where I will be able to keep the real-time protection enabled and not run into these performance issues on the workstations. The workstations are all Windows XP Pro and have about 1.8ghz and 512mb of ram, around those ranges. Of course though these people need to have many applications like Outlook, Excel, Word, Multiple windows of IE and possibly a messenger application running at the same time, and with the real-time scan it is workable but very sluggish.

[Jeff Dickens]

Hello,

I have just recently pushed out BitDefender to one of my clients and I was having some issues specifically with the Client below:

1. I have been having some performance issues with the BitDefender Business Clients at the workstations because of the "Real-time protection". I have tried to lower what it is scanning but I was inquiring if anyone knew of any workarounds or common procedures where I will be able to keep the real-time protection enabled and not run into these performance issues on the workstations. The workstations are all Windows XP Pro and have about 1.8ghz and 512mb of ram, around those ranges. Of course though these people need to have many applications like Outlook, Excel, Word, Multiple windows of IE and possibly a messenger application running at the same time, and with the real-time scan it is workable but very sluggish.

I would say that with those specs and that workload, good performance is not a reasonable expectation. 2x 1GB PC3200 memory at TigerDirect.com is $59. I'm going to 2GB on workstations as fast as I can get them installed. Most of my hardware is 2.4Ghz and faster but other than that a similar workload.

My hope is that these platforms will run Windows 7 acceptably . I have the beta downloaded.. haven't had a chance to install yet.

[AndreTheGiant]

I suspect your right since we fixed the issue by just limiting what the Real-Time Protection scanned and it was resolved. I put it up the my client, but they weren't very giving on that note and just decided to take the breach in security till of course it actually becomes an issue.

Either way though, I think those specs would work on Windows 7. Thanks for the reply.