Bitdefender Virus Scanner App Reviews

Only one complaint icon seems ugly…..otherwise a good app..

Ive had this program freeze my computer forcing me to hard restart 3 separate times, while it is attempting to scan my entire computer (at about the 50 minute mark). Also, it appears to force your mac to re-index your computer (but that could be due to the hard restarts).

The interface is pretty neat in straight forward and its much faster than other free AV programs that I tried. If I want to be picky, the only thing that is missing is the pause button during the scan process ! although it doesnt slow down the system that much but still you might want to pause it sometimes.

It cant even complete its first scan! I tried to make my fisrt scan twice, each time it would scan for 7 or 8 hours and than it cashes before its done! Dont even download this wannabe virus scanner! Move to trash!

Seems to have performed first scans well. Did critical bits in under a half hour, and full scan in under 2 hours…I think. Clock for elapsed time read " 01:61:-3481 ". Is this MAC clock thing - Im new to this part of the computing universe. Might be nice to see a progress indicator so you know when (roughly) things might finish though.

I wouldnt have guessed it but I had three trojan files and have been scanning my computer regularly with competing free software I downloaded off the web a year ago. 5 stars. Easy to use. Slow, but very thourough.

this anti virus program was able to find 3 viruses on my computer that my other anti virus program couldnt! i downloaded this not as a joke, but definitely not expecting it to find anything unusual. i was so surprised to find viruses that were slowing down my computer. now i have a new main anti virus program that im confident can do the job! its free and i encourage everyone to give it a try! -satisfied customer

This app is great and it is easy to use. Also it is FREE!!!! I have not experienced any problems with the app and it seems to doing its job. Overall really great app.

I want to like this app because it has a nice UI and I am in need of a virus scanner. But after an hour or so of trying to scan my whole computer, it freezes my Macbook running Lion 10.7.3. Ive tried three times to do a full scan, and each time within an hour, my compter freezes to the point I have to do a force shutdown of the whole system. And sometimes it mixed up my computer so much so, I had to restart my computer a second time to de-scramble the damage it had done. It found viruss that needed fixing, but I could never get to the cleaning part before it freezes up or finishes scanning. Didnt work at all for me.

We all know that OS X is much less likely to get infected with malware but, unfortunately, nothing is 100% safe. Bitdefender sums up everything I love about Mac applications: its lightweight, self-contained, and doesnt leave anything running when its closed. The only thing I would complain about is its indeterminate progress bar during scans, and the fact that scans need to pop up their own dialog. I would prefer to have the main dialog smoothly expand to contain a real progress bar and cancel button like a lot of other Mac applications. These are minor annoyances though, great app!

It scanned my MacBook Pro in 33 min, no virus found. I updated the malware database before scanning my computer. It seems like it does the work :)

Ive tried every A/V software for Mac so far inclduing Sophos, Intego and the works. I was a little relucatant to try this one but it is by far THE best of the bunch. It caught a bunch of Windows viruses in Mac Mail that even Sophos missed. Excellent product. Just one little glitch, it doesnt remember the window positions for the main window, scan window and preferences window. They all end up in the bottom left corner of my screen every time I launch the app. Not a huge issue. Im sure theyll get it fixed. Once again, this beats all the A/V software Ive tried. No need to pay $9.95 for VirusBarrier Plus. This one does it all (including Windows viruses) for free. And no real-time scanning which is a blessing since there are no daemons and launch agents running in the background which all contribute to slowing your Mac down to a crawl. Completely unobtrusive. Best piece of free software Ive ever got from the Mac App Store.

When I first experienced this antivirus software, I couldnt believe that it was all free. I have tried many antivirues softwares so far. But this is the best. I highly encourage you to download this application as long as it is free. Just download it before it conts money!!! I feel grateful for this applications maker. Keep up the exellent work and thank you very much.

Its a highly rated anti-virus by independent reviewers, and yet its free. Amazing.

I just updated my Bitdefender, and yet everytime I view it on the app store, it tells me to update. I went to the updates section on the mac app store nothing but an update towards a game I play. So is this a bug regarding the software or is it the Mac App store bug? Aside from that, theres no problem with anything else.

On both mac and windows I use this tool its amazing and the fact that its free is even better. Mac doesnt get many viruses (Ive had none) but having this is just good incase something happens.

Please fix this Update problem, it says Update, but I have the laste version.

Was sidetracked many years with Windows PCs and Viruses, Backddoor stuff and all the problems that go with a Registry (dont have one now!). Spent an inordinate amount of time downloading security software multi times a time and still got hacked. So after that sojurn decided to come back to Mac where I started and hopefully have a neasier time of it. I believe I have but the lure of this product simply to confirm that my Macs were clean got the better of me. I have a fast iMac with an SSD and max RAM. So donwloaded the progam and the definitions. To run the critcal areas took about 2 minutes and then I did all contents of the 2 HDDs the SSD and the spinner - took 14 minutes. Then I made a mistake - I did entire system which of course includes all my backups - so an hour and 40 minutes later everything was done and pronounced clean! and I knew it was. It does each of the backups for everyday so unless you find you have some nasty stuff on your Mac skip the backup. If you have nasty stuff you have to do the backup becasue the nasty stuff will have been backed up. Product did not hang, or freeze and ran quickly compared to say Norton Internet Security on a PC. Same contents but NO Registry and no dlls. If you dont have a fairly current Intel Processor (quad core helps but duo is fine) and 8 GB of ram it likely wont run as fast as mine becasue the bottleneck is always the spinng HDD. The SSD speeds things up by a factor or 100. I have to conclude this is a very good product and for the price excellent! I recommend it but then I Private Browse and have all the security set up based on my PC days. Give it a fair try - it deserves a chance!

Be aware, this is only a 32 bit program. Hopefully a 64 bit version is coming soon.

This claimes that harmless programs I made are viruses simply due to the filename: "Virus". Fairly poor.