PSA: Anti-malware/anti-ransomware/anti-virus can cause extreme performance loss (e.g. Acronis Active Protection)

[MichaMMA]

@Aeluwas

I use Acronis True Image 2020 as one of my backup solutions. That includes “Active Protection”, an anti-ransomware feature that attempts to detect software doing naughty things,

yep… these tool was a backup tool and with the years they build a lot of stuff into for which a backup tool is not responsible.

I can only repeat what I wrote in an context of an issue, in which Acronis was also mentioned.

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yep… as former mentioned… I disable 95% of these bloodware coming with Avast and thus I had never an issue, but still a good protection. I can only recommend to disable all that useless tools/bloodware which comes with Avast and/or each other so called Anti-Virus-“Suite”'s. What users need is a good Anti-Vir-Protection, may be with Browser and Mail-Check and nothing else… No own own firewall, no sandboxes, no real sites, no extra remote protection, nothing with clean-up in name , also no auto…

I also use Acronis, but I start the backup from time to time manualy and thats it. Like for Avast, I disabled all that * “add ons”…

And yes… adding such huge games into the anti-vir exclussion list, is a old recommendation ( also / and in special for MS defender ) . Just let scan the folder manualy from time to time.