Bitdefender Virus Scanner

If you are iPhone and iPad owner,you now can download Bitdefender Virus Scanner for free from Apple Store. The application is supporting English language. It is a whopper, weighing in at 186600306, so make sure you have plenty of free space on your iOS device. The new Bitdefender Virus Scanner app version 3.7 has been updated on 2014-11-25.
Bottom Line: For more information about Bitdefender Virus Scanner check developer Bitdefender SRL`s website : http://www.bitdefender.com/support/consumer.html

Scanning no longer works neither Critical Deep nor Custom They all appear to initiate then immediately report that they completed The Deep Scan for sure used to take at least 30 minutes on my Mac now it s immediate Safe to say it s not working an longer             Scanning no longer works gman-one

it appears this update bit defender no londer does deep system scan Critical Locations and Custom Locations still work For now I am using Custom Locations and selecting full drive to accomplish deep system scan                     Mac OS 10 13 2 Update MacremSolutions

i would like to strongly caution anyone who wants to install this Bitdefender slowed down my mac and then it s extremely difficult to remove once it s installed If you want a slow computer and then later spend a lot of time trying to get this thing off your machine then go ahead but don t say you weren t warned     doesn t work well extremely difficult to remove roger roundly

I ve always wondered at the size of the malware signature download Looks like this scans Mac OS for Windows malware My last scan found a exe file that it didn t like Might be a lot faster if if focused on the OS that it is built for         Why Windows malware signatures MikeWi...

I m always amazed at negative reviews of products apps that I find extremely effective Bit Defender paid version is outstanding Updates smoothly uses very little resources to run and most importantly detects and removes bad stuff It just detected the Elmedia Proton Trojan and deleted it Several major on line publications said that the only way to clean out the trojan was to reinstall the OSX Not correct BD cleaned my Mac Mini completely and only required a simple reboot                     Works Perfectly Michael Jonas, Scottsdale AZ

I can t pause it to work on something resume it later to save CPU mem resources I don t understand that lack of a basic feature I m giving it 3 stars because of that and because I ve only been using it for 24 hours I m meh at this point may revise later It seems to be finding android and windoze related pups trojans viruses in emails and android backups in contrast to Malwarebytes which finds nothing while BitDefender does but it doesn t seem to be quarantining them not sure the controls are exactly customizable like being able leave where it is go back later and quarantine or delete I just know at this point that it needs a pause button and does not have one             Really needs a pause button BIG TIME SW1O1

The Bit Defender app found more than one virus on my external drive where I stored Time Machine Backups However it wouldn t remove them So I contacted customer service for help I submitted a request on their website 3 Days later BD requested scan logs I returned them immediately 3 Days later I wrote BD requesting an update 15 days later I asked BD again for an update 4 days after that BD sent an email requesting my scan logs which I submitted 3 weeks earlier I wrote back and explained I had already sent them This time I re submitted my original request directly on the BD website since I thought they might not be able to retrieve my emails explaining my previous efforts to get help BD wrote back REQUESTING MY SCAN LOGS AGAIN A week later BD wrote to me saying my Time Machine Backup contained infected files which I already knew but they weren t a threat since they were Time Machine backups and said to just exclude Time Machine Backups from my regular scans They said just ignore the Time Machine files and they would eventually be deleted by Time Machine The problem was they would still be connected to my computer I wrote back asking how to remove these specific infected files from Time Machine Backups BD replied the next day giving me a link to an Apple Article about how to remove files from Time Machine Backups But THEY DID NOT TELL ME WHICH FILES TO REMOVE which ones were infected I asked which files I should remove and BD finally sent me a list of the names of the infected Time Machine Backup files About a week later BD wrote again saying I needed to provide further information and that they were closing my ticket Since I couldn t get an answer back in the first 2 weeks I threw away the infected drive and just bought a different one I m doing the same with the Bit Defender software     Buy A New Hard Drive Instead b#

Sometime ago with this version one had to start the definition update get an error 60 then start the update again and it would work Now it will not update at all error 1008 No information on their website for this product for any issues Time to look for an alternative     Was hard to update now impossible Art2Matters

Whats the deal Seems the free version has a dial up modem attached             virus definitions update Ricksternbigd

BITDSEFENDER ANTIVIRUS ISN T WORTH TWO DEAD FLIES KEEP YOUR MONEY AND PURCHASE ANOTHER ANTIVIRUS YELLOWBOY     BITDEFENDER ANTIVIRUS IS NOT WORTH TWO DEAD FLIES SAVE YOUR MONEY HILLBILLY1914

I downloaded Bitdefender a couple of days ago I also downloaded Antivirus Zap at the same time Both seem to work great I wanted to be able to use both to see if they both pick up any infected files They both did after doing a scan earlier today Not sure if they were all the same files that they found though Next time I ll check to compare them both In any case they both are picing up adware and trogjans as well as malware so I m happy with the results                     Works great squash4dave

Having enormous trouble getting updates to download Tried all sorts of trick when getting error messages Sometimes able to passby the error messages and succeed in downloading the updates All the tricks failed at my last attempt which has prompted me to say something here We need help It really is not working properly anymore And just tried to get through to Support and yes the site came up on my browser but I could not find the product that I have listed and therefore the site would not allow me to go forward and report my problems and get help This is NOT good at all         Having enormous trouble getting updates to download Fiber Artist 1

After an hour plus to download v3 8 no virus or malware found How can this be that my computer has escaped all the antivirus and malware programs that everyone else gets Not sure if Bitdefender is working or if just a pretty icon after deep system scan and nothing found             Nothing found Uncertain1

Purchased the product last year Renewed this year on their website Big mistake They stopped my subscription stating that I had disputed the charge with my bank which I had not Been going around and around with Bitdefender for over a month and they are unable to resolve the situation so now I have disputed the charge To add insult to injury I can t uninstall this bleeping program from my laptop and am concerned it will interfere with another antivirus program     Customer Service is HORRIBLE Quirkyme

A new piece of macOS malware called Proton B was discovered on Saturday May 6 2017 WIthin hours Apple had released an update to the macOS builtin XProtect database to block infection to Mac s Pretty good for a weekend However as of May 9 2017 at 7pm ET BitDefender Virus Scanner with the latest virus definitions fails to detect this virus sample         Database updates are not fast enough QuiveringFungus

I have used Bitdefender for years Mac only I am very impressed how Bitdefender has continually improved the ease of installation updating and use Very impressive how Bitdefender has reduced the virus deep scan time over the years If you keep your OS updates current regularly back ups using Time Machine run adware and popup blockers in Safari only download approved software from the App Store and frequently update and run Bitdefender deep scans you will significantly decrease your risk of malware exposure There are no 100 full proof security solutions but conscientious and committed user security practices including Bitdefender come close                     Easy to install use and VERY effective Dfom

2017 can t remove old copies when you upgrade Gets in your launch Daemons and launch Agents Spent hours with apple online people They can not remove New program cant be installed until old removed     STOP stay away can t be removed with apple help Golf gnip

This app works very smooth and quick perfect for a Mac which probably only needs on demand scanning Update s are very substantial and Bitdefender has the reputation and strong database You just can t beat it Highly recommended                     Great deal stolendreams

Bitdefender is a very good virus scanner it will disenfect your hard drive BUT 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 Social media bots websites with malware it s all very invasive and yes there is some malware that once you get it you might as well scrap your hard drive unless you really know how to degauss a hard drive strong electro magnet that completely obliterates all data on the drive             Yes it s a virus scanner but it s not great at disenfection Wizbang Trainer

I am impressed as Bit Defender caught several malicious programs and even malicious windows executable files lurking on transferred usb drives The Deep system scan can run in the background It also has a quick scan feature and ability to scan user selected files disks or folders It is non invasive and doesn t cause disk permission problems It s very easy to use Get it you ll be glad you did                     Works Well is non invasive Quarantines infected files as well Kona17

When scanning the app will randomly start writing MASSIVE amounts of data to Library Containers com bitdefender BitdefenderVirusScanner in my user directory and eventually fill up my SSD Obvoiusly I m pretty upset about this and have tried to open a case with Bitdefender about it but ther website is malfunctioning and cannot get the form to submit I have never had this isssue with the Windows product and even thier rescue CD which runs Knoppix does not have this issue Apple needs to seriously pressue Bitdefender to fix this version of thier scanner to work as well as the full product     Keeps filling my SSD with temp files in Library Containers com bitdefender BitdefenderVirusScanner Zurbo

Removed 1 potential threat on the first scan But 12 additional viruses were found using a different free program         Missed 12 viruses Cassieeeee561

I paid for Bitdefender the one year is coming up to renew So I was going to upgrade to another Bitdefender Total 2017 The price on the web page was 36 dollars then I went to check out and the price changed to 50 dollars I logged out flushed my browser logged back to the bitdefender site and the price for Bitdefender Total Protection 2017 jumped to over 67 dollars This is called bait and switch It is against the law to do that The company has a Florida telephone number but they are located in Romania So if you intend to buy from them be careful To bad I was obliged to even give one star on this I was on the phone and emails with this company many many times Anything you say to them they reply I see I see I see I have version 4 1 3 at the moment but will delete it and all files related to it     Bitdender Price Bait and Switch worldtripper1

I will admit that I am a little curious that it never finds anything wrong on my system I am careful around the internet and email but still it seems like it should find something However I am not noticig any issues so I have to assume that it is working properly App works incredibly fast especially after the first scan I do wish it had a auto update ferature becuase it is a little slow getting updates and before I can scan anything it has to get updates Obviously I want it to do that anyway The ability to do live scanning of the system or atleast to be able to watch certain folders would be nice also then I wouldn t have to run full scans to find out of something is going on Overall though I am happy with Bitdefender It does seem to be the best virus protection on the app store especially for free I do check once in a while for something better but never find anything I have not had any crashes or system hangs caused by this app as far as I can tell One last thing A lot of people get upset with virus protection for not being able to fix their system when they get antivirus after an infection Most infections these days are smart enough that they can mask themselves to a new antivirus app To be fully safe you should have an antivirus program before getting a virus I am not an expert but I read online that they will ake themselves appear to be a systme file t hat belongs there When antivirus is installed before the infection it knows if the file is the right one or not In fact before I install a new anti virus app I always run a check before I uninstall the last one just to make sure that there is nothing Just my thoughts though                 As far as I can tell it s good rjdeible

I have used it from 10 11 El Capitan and 10 9 5 Mavericks now and it appears to work It doesn t appear to take full advantage of hyperthreading available on the i7 but it does appear to take avantage of the 4 CPU Cores It found a few Trojans in Mail files It only allows one scan at a time some products will allow multiple simultaneous scans When I went to the support page to gather info on its requirements I could find nothing more than exists here on the App Store It runs as a 64 bit sandboxed app according to the Activity Monitor The peak i7 CPU utilizaiton I saw on Activity Monitor was 105 and 25 threads There is no comparison or review of this compared to other offerings that I could find so the most I can say about it is that it appears to work Without third party industry reviews and with the many different marketing offerings from a vendor one just isn t sure what they are purchasing The reviews on Virus protection software are very important as users don t want to infect their machines AV TEST AV Comparatives Tom s Hardware Simon Edwards Labs Virus Bulletin PC Mag MacWorld and MRG Effitas all are sources of reviews but I couldn t find for example a review comparing all the products offered by BitDefender Additonally some of these only focus on the PC Windows platform My star rating is based on my experience alone The ability to run on older systems e g 10 7 is a plus as is having Bitdefender as the vendor since Bitdefender has product that is very highly rated and thoroughly reviewed This may not be relevant if this product isn t using the same virus software and and technologies and virus lists The fact that it runs as a 64 bit sandboxed app is a plus Another plus is that I had zero problems running it A lack of a dedicated support page for this product is a negative The lack of reputable third party reviews on that page is a negative too The best I can do is a 3 Star review with the info I was able to roundup             Working but I have questions SnowLeopardAdvocate

Sadly it is completely unusable I have a terabyte drive from my windows machine that I know is infected with something so I want to scan it on my mac so that I have no cross contamination it starts scanning just fine and fined hundreds of things to delete or quarantine but instead of finishing it crashes and all of those items are now still on the harddrive There is not quarantine folder or anything for me to just delete etc The drive is still infected I would really like this to work Arg     Never completes Just crashes half way through Bellsebub

I keep getting a pop up notification that the app 3 7 needs to be updated However when I open system updates version 3 7 won t update then directs me to try to update in my purchases page Again will not update AND I cannot open the app itself in applications to scan and update I have to restart my iMac to open version 3 7 so there is no bux fixes in 3 8     will not update 5JJC

I had a problem where I had safe finder as my home screen This app cleaned it up I also had to where if I clicked on something chatbox or so it popped up another sceen to a download this I had to keep clicking X and this CLEANED it up I AM SO proud that this was a thing Thank you SOOO much                 SO far SO good Cupcakeparty2

Please someone help me figure out how to delete this app I am NOT happy wiht it and cannot find any UNinstaller for it Will just dragging it into the trash work Are there any remnants left by doing it this way I have spent a few hours on this and the Bitdefender web site is ZERO help It s ridiculous and aggravating Any real help would be greatly appreicated     How in God s Name do you delete this App DonFil09

OK this app seemed fantastic at the beginning but now Whenever i want to g oonto things that previously had a password or username it gets glitchy         Thank you Smithse17

I have been using this app for some time now but the virus list update that occurred sometime after the 13th of November the last time that I successfully used v3 7 has caused the app to hang up when it get to the webbookmark files in the Library Cache Metadata Safari section This started on the 27th of November I tried several times and it always hangs there which is to say that the app apppears to be scanning the same file for hours as evidenced by the elapsed time ticker grinding on albeit on different files When I reported this Bitdefender just used a stalling tactic or prehaps it was canned SW replying to my report For example they wanted a screenshot of an app that is hung up That would look the same as a screenshot of a perfectly functioning app I understand the app is free so I got what I paid for but they have tarnishd their brand It should be easy to replicate the problem at their end the only issue is the current threat list So I have switched to another virus scanner for now I will note that scanner detected a lot of malware that apparently skated by Bitdefender         Used to be OK Chuck Ef

this scanner is the best scanner ive ever had my first scanner was called malwarebytes anti malware it was apple recomended so of course that wasnt a bad file so i also did a scan with bit defender and found 2 bad files wile with malwarebytes it said it couldnt find any bad files of course malwarebytes wasnt bad but get bitdefender instead in conclusion bitdefender 10 10 ign rating i would play again                     best scanner just a guy whos saying thing$

I m not computer savvy I was researching motorcycles and started getting pop ups for porn sites then a big red warning with audio telling me I was infected and to call an 800 number I closed Safari went to the app store got this did the minimum emptied my trash and now there s no more pop ups Fantastic                     Solved My Problem in 7 Minutes Jimmy Riot

I do not recommend Bitedefender because when I requested a refund they offered me 1 year protection with three users When I said yes no one reply back They annoyed me to reply back to their settlement and then left me hanging So now I still have no protection and no refund There paid protection cannot be downloaded directly from Mac store When I was redirected their site I purchased the protection but Mac has a lock that needs to override My spouse told me not to buy a protection cleaner but I did thought bitedefender would come through Its been almost three weeks and my computer still don t work I still don t have a refund and bitedefender ignore my refunds requests What does that tell me     Cannot get on touch with customer service the old was nice