What’s the straight dope on the antivirus Webroot?
I use it and Malwarebytes Pro together, they work very well.
Webroot has had some decent reviews lately. However, it hasn’t historically scored well in some of the big lab tests. The Webroot folks say that’s because it works differently than other antivirus software packages. I’m a bit skeptical, though. Since Webroot is no longer submitting their program for the big lab testing, the only reviews you have on it are whatever local testing that folks like the guys at PC Magazine do before releasing an article about it. That is nowhere near the same level of testing.
One of Webroot’s supposed big benefits is that it doesn’t maintain a local virus database and that it doesn’t hog a lot of system resources. While I like that it doesn’t hog up a lot of memory, the fact of the matter is that disk space is dirt cheap these days, and I would much rather have it store data on a local virus database where it can be accessed quickly instead of having the program go out across the net to access its cloud server. Local disk accesses are much, much faster than internet accesses to a remote server.
I’m not impressed with it.
I have Webroots Secure Anywhere and am very happy with it.