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Re:Windows Defender Antivirus and layered machine learning d... by cptskippy on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @04:03PM (#15917635)
What measure are you using to determine the performance is terrible? As a developer, I have always had issues with Antivirus. If your compile times are crap then AV should be one of the first things you try disabling.

Hell, I've had overly aggressive AV (McAfee) locking files in temp data folders causing performance to falter in running applications (Visual Studio, Pidgin, Outlook, Office).

Why does the end user care about compile times?

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Re:Windows Defender Antivirus and layered machine learning d... by Someone1234 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @04:15PM (#15917726)
I've had the same experience, I've just taken to whitelisting all of the cache, assembly, and lib folders throughout the workflow (and processes).

Never found an AV which didn't seriously hamper build times, since building often involves a lot of process start/stops and new small files, both of which are kryptonite to AV.

MalwareBytes Enterprise recently got completely uninstalled as it was locking random files during compilation indefinitely. They have a fix but only for the consumer branch.

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Re:Windows Defender Antivirus and layered machine learning d... by emmelaich on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @04:42PM (#15917944)
Yes, you can disable anti-virus per directory or per-process.

AFAIK. Certainly for some anti-virus software.

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