

Thus, it's a mistake to think a one-size-fits-all solution, where the same technology is used across all platforms, is the best way to protect everyone.

The Mac threat landscape is very different from that on Windows. It's important to us to do what is needed to best protect our users, and that does not always mean mirroring Mac and Windows feature-for-feature. That has been highly effective, much more so than the addition of full disk scanning would be. We have been focusing our efforts on areas where we can do more to protect users, like the new App Block feature, which blocks execution of processes by code signature. It scans a dynamic set of locations defined by the current rules.Īlthough we certainly could do full disk scans - and probably will add that feature at some point in the future - it would add very little at the present time. Malwarebytes for Mac does not scan the entire hard drive, because there's really no need to do so. It appears that Malwarebytes for Mac only runs the much shorter and incomplete Threat Scan.
