Jan 7, 2017 - Review of Bitdefender Virus Scanner Free for Mac 2017. Bitdefender is a relative newcomer to the antivirus scene, but we were very quickly. Sep 25, 2018 - Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac Review. Pros / Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac finds and destroys malware with near-perfect accuracy. It detects and blocks Mac malware better than most programs and helps further secure your system with an included vulnerability scanner.

Essential security for your Mac! Bitdefender Virus Scanner finds Mac malware as well as Windows viruses with ease. Virus Scanner will detect any infected files that you downloaded or got in your inbox, so your Mac will be safe and you won’t pass anything bad to your friends’ computer. Grant Bitdefender Virus Scanner access to the locations on your computer that you want to scan against malware. Choose ‘Deep System Scan’ or ‘Scan Critical Locations’ to scan. The award-winning Bitdefender engines will find that piece of malware.

Make sure your Mac is free of infected files. Don't put your friends and family at risk by unknowingly passing along malware. Features: - Detects both OS X malware and Windows viruses; - Before a scan, it updates to detect the latest malware; - Searches for malware even in archives and inside various types of files such as pdf, pkg, zip, rar, etc.; - Critical locations scan - rapidly scans system areas that are prone to infections. - Award-winning Bitdefender antivirus engines; Also: - Quarantines dangerous files; - Deep system scan for all the locations the user has granted access to; - Drag-and-drop scan of files or folders; - Option to exclude files and folders from scan (i.e. Time Machine backups, etc.) - Easy-to-use interface.

Constraints: - Due to sandboxing in the App Store, the app has access only to the locations that the user has explicitly granted access to. Grant access to the entire disk for increased protection; - Disinfection limited by the privileges of the user running the app; - Doesn’t scan programs stored in memory. Wizbang Trainer, Yes, it’s a virus scanner, but it’s not great at disenfection Bitdefender is a very good virus scanner, it will disenfect your hard driveBUT don’t expect it to be able to work on a drive that is not formatted as an HFS drive. I have read reviews of people with windows NTFS drives who are of the opinion that they can connect that drive to their Mac for disinfection. It doesn’t work that way, #1 NTFS uses a different file structure so the OSX program doesn’t know where to put files on that drive to quarantine them because it is configured to work on an HFS drive.

People download it on a computer after it is already infected and don’t understand why it won’t update. Um because you have a virus that has disabled the updating. With either of these issues it’s the user issue with not keeping their system up to date with antivirus software and scanning the hard drive in full every week, with a daily quick scan. This is at a minimum, yes it is much more than most people are used to, but this is also a much differeent world than it was even 12 months ago.