Bitdefender Virus Scanner Plus

A paid malware scanner for macOS from Bitdefender, sold through the Mac App Store, that can scan running apps, critical locations or the whole system, with an optional continuous scan. Scan running apps, scan critical locations or scan the entire system whenever you choose or activate Continuous Scan to keep Virus Scanner Plus running all the time. The first scan I ran with a different product found threats that Virus Scanner Plus had missed for the months that I have been running scans with it on my Mac. Virus Scanner Plus puts on a good show but that’s all it is; a show. Supported platforms are macOS.

Current Version

3.17

Product Page

apps.apple.com/…/virus-scanner-pl…

Market

Consumer

Licence

Paid

Price

USD 29.99 / one_time

Record Created

2026-08-20

Last Updated

2026-10-10

Bitdefender was founded in 2001 in Bucharest by Florin Talpeș, who still runs it, and grew out of SOFTWIN, the Romanian software firm he had started a decade earlier. It is privately held, its main research centre is still in Bucharest, and its North American operation is in San Antonio, Texas. The company says more than half its staff work in research and development and that it has filed over 580 patents. Home users buy Bitdefender Antivirus Plus, Bitdefender Internet Security, Bitdefender Total Security, Bitdefender Premium Security and Bitdefender Ultimate Security, with Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac, Bitdefender Mobile Security and a free edition beside them. Organisations buy Bitdefender GravityZone, which spans endpoint protection, XDR and a managed detection service. One thing matters when comparing scores across this index: Bitdefender licenses its detection engine to other security companies, so several products listed here under other names are running its engine underneath. Their laboratory results tend to move together rather than independently, which is worth knowing before reading two such scores as two opinions. Vendor page →

Website

bitdefender.com

Country

🇷🇴Romania

Headquarters

🇷🇴Bucharest, Romania

Year Established

2001

Customers

40K organisations

Users

500M devices protected

Revenue

≈ $363.0M (2024)