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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 1121915" data-attributes="member: 78686">I think you misunderstood the 500 MB thing. I never said that Bitdefender downloads 500 MB signature update everytime. That would be absolutely ridiculous. I said the whole process of downloading, verifying the signature, rebuilding large part of the existing signature with the newly downloaded signature and deleting the old out-of-date database, these whole process writes 500 MB on average on each signature update. They literally create a new folder named something like &quot;update.new&quot;. Now &quot;update.new&quot; isn&#039;t the exact name of the folder. But the name is something like that with word &quot;new&quot; in it as far as I can remember. This folder is created every time signature is updated and here the repackaging of old with new signature happens. Those folders are protected now so not possible anymore to get inside and check at the time of updating. Should be possible to see the name of the folder before it&#039;s removed using something like the &quot;Everything&quot; app if you know the exact name. Anyway, so they said that they are actively working on improving these and have even reduced the database size by 10% this year which is impressive. Hope they continue to do it. I like Bitdefender and I have the best malware submission experience with Bitdefender compared to any other top products. Their forum mods and official employees are very nice people too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 1121915, member: 78686"] I think you misunderstood the 500 MB thing. I never said that Bitdefender downloads 500 MB signature update everytime. That would be absolutely ridiculous. I said the whole process of downloading, verifying the signature, rebuilding large part of the existing signature with the newly downloaded signature and deleting the old out-of-date database, these whole process writes 500 MB on average on each signature update. They literally create a new folder named something like "update.new". Now "update.new" isn't the exact name of the folder. But the name is something like that with word "new" in it as far as I can remember. This folder is created every time signature is updated and here the repackaging of old with new signature happens. Those folders are protected now so not possible anymore to get inside and check at the time of updating. Should be possible to see the name of the folder before it's removed using something like the "Everything" app if you know the exact name. Anyway, so they said that they are actively working on improving these and have even reduced the database size by 10% this year which is impressive. Hope they continue to do it. I like Bitdefender and I have the best malware submission experience with Bitdefender compared to any other top products. Their forum mods and official employees are very nice people too. [/QUOTE]

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