Otherwise it's pretty straightforward for me: I've got around a month to go in my subscriptions. I would advise Bitdefender to at least form an official reply in this thread, please let customers know that you are aware of this issue and care. Even checking for an update takes 5 mins or more. Thus increasing security risk for their customers if this isn't remediated soon.

My conclusion so far is that Bitdefender's content delivery network might be a culprit, which means new updates are pushed into the world at a slower pace. After it eventually installed, updates were getting in at roughly 200kb/sec MAX, with lots of interruptions on the bitdefender updateserver side ( ). The downloader was extremely slow during installation already (hardly 1mbps on my 500mbps fiber connection), so that's really down to bandwidth from the Bitdefender download servers (AWS EC2 servers, and some reverse-unset.blabla name right?). So a very clean starting point, literally NO other software to interfere. What did I do to analyse this a bit further: +1 on this topic, updating takes extremely long.

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