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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1951309" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>How slow? Minutes? Hours? Was this a scan of a huge drive or a small drive? Did it include your external drive?</p><p></p><p>As for Bit Defender, the last time that there was a comprehensive comparison test that I trusted, it fared quite poorly. Scroll down to the table </p><p>"<strong>Anti-virus software performance, sorted by percentage of malware detected</strong>"</p><p>here:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230909150005/https://www.thesafemac.com/mac-anti-virus-testing-2014/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20230909150005/https://www.thesafemac.com/mac-anti-virus-testing-2014/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1951309, member: 190607"] How slow? Minutes? Hours? Was this a scan of a huge drive or a small drive? Did it include your external drive? As for Bit Defender, the last time that there was a comprehensive comparison test that I trusted, it fared quite poorly. Scroll down to the table "[B]Anti-virus software performance, sorted by percentage of malware detected[/B]" here: [URL code="true"]https://web.archive.org/web/20230909150005/https://www.thesafemac.com/mac-anti-virus-testing-2014/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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