Just as a side note, my subscription is up for renewal, and I am seriously considering not renewing because this issue is so annoying and the design of the program so short-sighted in this respect, especially when the fix is so easy. The bloody thing is still scanning!īitDefender people, can you PLEASE include a function to force an autoscan stop! This is not difficult, and it would save those of us experiencing this annoying behaviour the trouble of having to reboot or look for on/off buttons that may or may not work. I wanted to wait and see if the problem would occur again before I replied, as I could then see if either of your suggestions would work.Īs I sit here typing, Autoscan is merrily scanning something, hard drive in full swing, resources being consumed (I opened several applications in an attempt to get the scan to stop, as per ONT's suggestion), and even turned OFF autoscan but no luck. Hope this helped to answer some of your concerns Disabling the Autoscan, will 'only' give you a gold/yellow 'needs your attention' color. If you were to disable the more major components of BD, say, Privacy, which controls and protects your online web browsing, you would get the red B System Tray icon Critical issues warning color, as well as with disabling other real time shields, Firewall and On-access scanning.

they didn't consider the 'glitch factor', and thus a need for that option to manually cancel that scan. Since Autoscan is a Bitdefender initiated scan (during idle times) and should stop when we move the cursor, access files etc. Sometimes phone support, Chat, and other forums may get a spike in a minor issue, that is more silently resolved in an update, i.e.

So, with my thoughts on disabling the Autoscan for a couple of days, was to allow an BD update, or a restart to take place that may have cured a BD glitch, which was the case for myself. As with myself at times, can tend to be a little to diplomatic or coy in my responses.

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