Under the hood, the Bitdefender Home Scanner runs Nmap, a widely used free and open-source network-mapping tool.
I finally had to go into Task Manager to kill the process manually. There's no "Exit" or "Quit" command in the sparse menus, and closing the interface didn't prevent notifications of new network devices from popping up. There also doesn't seem to be any way to turn the scanner off. That was annoying at work, but would be very handy for someone at home who'd want to know when a strange device jumped aboard the Wi-Fi network. The scanner also seizes focus to pop up a notification when a new device is added to the network.
It's probably best to run Bitdefender Home Scanner while you're not doing anything else on the computer, or the constant shift of focus will drive you nuts. Another quirk that should probably be fixed: The tool annoyingly kept seizing desktop focus every time it completed a major step in its overall scan, whether that step was discovering a new device or scanning another device for flaws.
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