Comment by tyingq

7 years ago

This helped me: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/1932#issuecomment-40...

Microsoft made some change a year or so ago that brought more of WSL into Windows Defender's view.

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Strom  7 years ago

Windows Defender is an abomination. It makes file operations on regular Windows also extremely slow. For example unpacking the Go 1.11 zip which is 8700 files takes a second with my PCIe SSD with Windows Defender disabled. Enable it and the extraction time rises to several minutes.

  • tyingq  7 years ago

    I wonder if their "real time protection" is making a network request every time you open a new file.