Bitdefender is one of the top Mac antivirus program. It has a high level of malware detection, as well as other useful security features. However, it’s not without imperfections.

The default interface is simple to navigate and groups features into 3 categories: Privacy, Security and Utilities. The Protection tab is mainly dedicated to features you’d expect from any antivirus software, such as real-time scanning, firewall monitoring and ransomware countermeasures. The Privacy tab provides ways to be secure on the internet, including a secure web browser that runs websites within a sandbox in order to prevent malware from infecting your standard browser. And the Utilities tab is about optimization tools as well as an application that shreds files with a unique algorithm, making them unrecoverable even in the event that they are deleted.

Other features are also available with premium plans, including a useful password manager as well as an Anti-Tracker solution that can prevent excessive tracking that is carried out by various websites. The program comes with a security scanner that can detect obsolete applications and passwords that are not secure, or Windows updates that haven’t yet been applied. It also provides a speedy customized scan that takes only five minutes to complete, which is quicker than competitors like Norton and TotalAV.

The only board meeting software issue with the application is that it takes some time to install and can be frustrating for users who are eager to get started. Additionally the application’s “Reveal in the Finder” option isn’t working and is a bizarre decision for an antivirus software which competes with competing solutions that do exactly the same thing in only few clicks.