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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 804700" data-attributes="member: 78686">Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts. Now I understand why many AV&#039;s nowadays opting not to scan every files. Actually, in my experience Defender is pretty fast. It only feels a bit slower when enter into a folder with lot of executables but that&#039;s very rare. Otherwise it feels very fast. Currently I&#039;m using Kaspersky Free, weirdly it seems to slow down copying speed a bit but otherwise it&#039;s very fast too. Actually, a year or two ago Eset did the same for me too but latest update didn&#039;t do so. Maybe they changed something now? I agree Eset is very fast indeed.True. I&#039;m one of those people who finds Defender to be very light nowadays. A year ago it was slower but now it feels very fast.I agree. Performance varies from PC to PC. I check their report just to get an idea of the performance. Right. The difference is probably not much. Merely a second or two. It depends on the user whether they feels and accept this slowdown or not.This makes sense. In my case it&#039;s more down to peace of mind I guess. I usually used Kaspersky, AVG, Avira, Norton, Windows Defender for a longer period for the last 10-12 years. Among this only AVG changed the behavior and other are still continuing the traditional way. So, I&#039;m more used to such config hence feel a bit insecure with the current standard.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 804700, member: 78686"] Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts. Now I understand why many AV's nowadays opting not to scan every files. Actually, in my experience Defender is pretty fast. It only feels a bit slower when enter into a folder with lot of executables but that's very rare. Otherwise it feels very fast. Currently I'm using Kaspersky Free, weirdly it seems to slow down copying speed a bit but otherwise it's very fast too. Actually, a year or two ago Eset did the same for me too but latest update didn't do so. Maybe they changed something now? I agree Eset is very fast indeed. True. I'm one of those people who finds Defender to be very light nowadays. A year ago it was slower but now it feels very fast. I agree. Performance varies from PC to PC. I check their report just to get an idea of the performance. Right. The difference is probably not much. Merely a second or two. It depends on the user whether they feels and accept this slowdown or not. This makes sense. In my case it's more down to peace of mind I guess. I usually used Kaspersky, AVG, Avira, Norton, Windows Defender for a longer period for the last 10-12 years. Among this only AVG changed the behavior and other are still continuing the traditional way. So, I'm more used to such config hence feel a bit insecure with the current standard. [/QUOTE]

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