Avast for Business Free is Being Discontinued
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imgur.comPosted Aug 14, 2018, 2:15 PM UTC
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imgur.comAnd nothing was lost.
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I've only seen that when dealing with systems that are running lots of IO to begin with.. aka Database systems, downloaders. Make sure you exclude those paths and things normally work fine. Also if you use the kali on windows, don't forget to exclude the on-disk location or defender goes nuts.
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Anyone got any recommendations for a free antivirus that will work with Windows Server? No Windows Defender does not count, I can not be doing with my I/O being chewed up because of that claptrap.
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If defender is giving you so much grief, there is something else wrong
I run defender on every single Windows Server, not a single issue
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Every single machine I have used that had it enabled had pants on head retarded levels of I/O grind, as soon as I disable it, everything is back to normal.
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I have the same experience as well. It's in group policy just to shut it off. Updates already take long enough without it.
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Windows defender is high on I/O? I've always felt like it's one of the lightest and most out of the way ones out there. Not perfect, but good enough with some common sense and care.
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Oh no. How sad
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Windows Defender + Bitdefender work very well in tandem. Not sure why Windows Defender is giving you grief, might be worth looking into why the default option is giving you issues instead of looking for an alternative. Hard for any company to offer a free solution when Windows already has one built in.
Do you know any settings that could be worth looking into, I have tried adding Program Files and Windows to the exclusion list but that hasn’t done it and I get I/O lag even with just an SSD and no D: drive configured so it could be a completely bare install of Server Core even.