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Bitdefender continuously scans the device for any suspicious files that it compares against a list of daily updated security threats. That’s certainly more preferable to antivirus software with outdated virus definition databases.īitdefender offers both on-demand scans (meaning we can perform one whenever we’re feeling a bit anxious) and on-access (whenever the app is open, even in the background). When we used it, the app performed these updates as much as four times in a day. There’s also a notifications tab where you can easily see all of the updates the software is doing so that they’re constantly up to date on the latest malwares that are out there. There are buttons to do a quick scan or a system scan. The dashboard for Bitdefender’s app for Mac is relatively intuitive. 1 Compared to over two million for Windows devices, it doesn’t sound like that much, but it’s a number increasing year after year. There were over half a million new malware software targeting Macs in 2020.

FYI: The development of malware targeting Mac systems has shot up in recent years.