A quick update to the BitDefender story.

BitDefender is too slow. Way to slow. Ridiculously slow. Unusably slow.

It's become a routine to turn off BitDefender just to do simple file moves.

It doesn't remember anything that it's scanned outside of the current session, so the next time you start up your computer you're doomed to sitting through everything being scanned all over again. Slowly, slowly scanned.

I completely turned off the HTML scanning, but even so, it still scans everything. One site that I go to at least once a day, every day, to view text based reports in a Java framework is particularly nuts making. The only parts that change is the text data. Less than 30K -- usually way less. Even so, the pages are all held for each first display of the session so that BitDefender can rescan all of the java support. For EVERY page! This is nuts.

I'm quitting it today even though I have 18 months left on my subscription. It's just tooooo slooooow! (And I thought you all would like to know.)