Antivirus for Mac on Mac OS Big Sur

I got a notification this morning that the extension for the current version of Bitdefender would not be compatible with a future version of MacOS and to notify the developer. Here you go.

Hello,

Does that mean that once MacOS Big Sur is released as a stable upgrade on the App Store there will be an update to Bitdefender as well?

Latest beta (8? 20A5374i) shows Bitdefender as a corrupt application, and the uninstaller won't complete. Manually removing it and reinstalling it does not even add the Bitdefender icon to the application folder - so I guess it's broken until Bitdefender gets around to fixing it.

I hope everything is okay now

i hate to see people complain this much about Bitdefender

maybe someone who has Big Sur updated already check the situation and let us know if everything ok now?

Thank You Flexx for following up the situation so far

Update: Oh Thanks @TravelingTartar for confirming that everything is ok with Bitdefender Antivirus now

I am on Big Sur. Sofar it seems to be compatible. Only thing that happened was that Bitdefender was turned off and I had to turn it on again. BTW, I am talking about Bitdefender Shield. I have another VPN.

I just had the same message pop up running Big Sur 11.0.1 and the installation did not complete successfully even though the installation said it did.

I had to manually uninstall following the instructions on the web site. I tried again with the same results... except I no longer get the message about the extension.

I do not understand how a company that claims to be serious does not have this resolved in advance. Hopefully they will do it soon, otherwise we will have to look for alternatives

Thank you for trusting Bitdefender security solutions.

 Upon receiving your case, we inform you that we have released a product update prior to the launch of macOS Big Sur so that Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac can be fully compatible with the new operating system.

Well then they lie from the Bitdefender technical service

2019 MBP with Big Sur. No issues.

i am having the same problem, but after 5 restarts and nothing changing i gave up. The Anti virus still updates so i presume they are having a problem. Hope they fix it before i have to take auto renewal off.

Highly recommend to those having problems with Big Sur and Bitdefender to boot into Safe Mode. Then, uninstall, search for "bitdfender" and then delete any files that might have been left over. You can just restart from there and install. I did not do that. I installed Bitdefender after booting - a second time - into Safe Mode.

BEWARE THEY TRY AND SCAM YOU WITH A £70 RENWAL WHEN YOU BUY AND YOU CANT REFUND

I've had a Bitdefender Total Security subscription for years & everything has worked great on PCs running Windows 10, but I just tried to install it on a 2017 Macbook Pro & the only thing that installs is the anti virus. How can I install the rest of the Total Security package? Total Security should be "total security" & not just the anti virus, & when checking Bitdefender Central after installation, it shows one of the open licenses being used by the MacBook Pro even though it doesn't have everything installed. I see a lot of comments regarding incompatibility issues with Bitdefender & the newest iOS so is this the reason why the entire software package won't install? If so, when is this supposed to be fixed? This thread was started almost a year ago so it seems like something should have happened by now, right?

I had the same problem with the "(Null)" issue.

Uninstalled, cleaned from all the left-over files... then when install, it finishes, and when the agent start to download the missing items, it crashes. Basically now I cannot have it installed on my Mac.

So disappointed, opened a ticket 2 days ago and no reply from support. Never had this problem with Norton before, just made a bad decision to buy this product.

Will try