Files held in quarantine show just a malware ID and file path, as well as Restore and Delete buttons. The quarantined file area is found under Preferences, as are logs. Beyond its problems with scanning, the app’s minimalist interface makes it hard to find more information. This experience indicates that Bitdefender can’t be relied upon for real-time protection.Ĭompeting products detected malware as soon as they were decompressed or, in the worst case, when I tried to open or launch them. Macworld macOS's built-in protection had to fill in where Bitdefender fell asleep. There seemed to be no clear reason for why a file might be disabled instead of deleted, or visa versa. I tried this with other pieces of malware, and the same happened, except the file was deleted. Even then, the file remained in place, but was no longer launchable. I had to run a Custom Scan in that specific folder for it to detect the malware. (It was macOS that blocked the launch, because the samples were all either unsigned or used revoked certificates.) Bitdefender also didn’t catch it during an automatic scan.
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How to choose the best antivirus software.īitdefender didn’t stop me when I downloaded macOS malware from the Objective See archive, decompressed it, and tried to launch it.
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To see if this antivirus package justifies the cost, read on for our full Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac review. Macworld Bitdefender did protect against browser-based malware attacks during our spot-check tests. Go there for details about competing products and how we tested them. However, when testing against downloading and decompressing macOS malware, it fared much worse. When I tested browser-based delivery of malware, Bitdefender did indeed detect and block whatever I threw at it.
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