“Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac” (from their website) and “Bitdefender Virus Scanner Plus” (from the Mac App Store) both cost money. Doesn’t scan programs stored in memory.īitdefender has a paid version, yes, but this version is not the one that costs money, this version is 100% FREE! “Bitdefender Virus Scanner”, the thing you see here, is the free one. Disinfection limited by the privileges of the user running the app Grant access to the entire disk for increased protection

Due to sandboxing in the App Store, the app has access only to the locations that the user has explicitly granted access to. Option to exclude files and folders from scan (i.e. Drag-and-drop scan of files or folders Deep system scan for all the locations the user has granted access to Award-winning Bitdefender antivirus engines Critical locations scan - rapidly scans system areas that are prone to infections. Searches for malware even in archives and inside various types of files such as pdf, pkg, zip, rar, etc. Before a scan, it updates to detect the latest malware Detects both OS X malware and Windows viruses Don't put your friends and family at risk by unknowingly passing along malware. Make sure your Mac is free of infected files. The award-winning Bitdefender engines will find that piece of malware. Choose ‘Deep System Scan’ or ‘Scan Critical Locations’ to scan. Grant Bitdefender Virus Scanner access to the locations on your computer that you want to scan against malware. 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. Bitdefender Virus Scanner finds Mac malware as well as Windows viruses with ease.

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