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Defender has the nasty habit of aggressively scanning new games I download off Steam. There are two occasions where it'll do it: - While it's downloading it se
by aarongolliver 10y ago
Defender has the nasty habit of aggressively scanning new games I download off Steam. There are two occasions where it'll do it:
- While it's downloading it seems to scan each chunk. I have a gigabit connection, with defender off I can download at nearly full speed. With it on I can download at about 1MB/s.
- While the game loads a level. For example, the intro level to the new Deus Ex took over 10 minutes to load the first time. At that point I disabled defender entirely and just promised myself I would be careful. Naive, I know, but at least I can play my video games.
- Already__Taken 10y agoYou can give it paths to exempt you know. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5924-windows-defender-exclusions-add-remove-windows-10-a.html https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5924-windows-defender-ex...
- aarongolliver 10y agoYeah, but if you piss me off enough times I'm exempting all of my hard drives. It hasn't caught a single virus since 2009. I've not found it that hard to stay safe online.
- Tepix 10y agoI wonder, have there been cases where viruses or trojans were spread via Steam?