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This compensation comes from two main sources. To help support our reporting work, and to continue our ability to provide this content for free to our readers, we receive compensation from the companies that advertise on the Forbes Advisor site. I am trying this along with the free version of Malwarebytes Antimalware, hopefully using both of them can clean up my Mac from an infection of some malware.The Forbes Advisor editorial team is independent and objective.

Well none of those apply to this product because it is completely free, right here in the Mac App Store it is listed as free, sure there is a “Plus” version that costs money but if you get this free version you will NOT be charged anything. Oh and they also have something else free on their website called “Bitdefender Adware Removal Tool for Mac” but it can only remove TWO adware programs, “Genieo' and “Vsearch”, not a very long list, although to be fair, those are the most common ones.Īnyway the point is, there are some other reviews here which are rather negative and complain about being ripped off out of money. “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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