The results were comparable.Webroot doesn't require credit card details to use its trials, but you will have to register with your name and email address. To check its claimed ability to journal activity by an unknown program and roll it back upon detecting it as malicious, I repeated this test with Webroot cut off from the Internet, then reestablished an Internet connection after launching all samples. In the morning it had detected a few more samples. Webroot doesn't flag an unknown program as malicious until it performs a malicious action, so after my baseline malware blocking test I let it run overnight. Webroot SecureAnywhere Internet Security Plus (2014) lab tests chart For a description of the third-party testing labs I follow, please read see How We Interpret Antivirus Lab Tests. The chart below summarizes recent test results, but there's just not enough info from the labs to help evaluate Webroot. Webroot's handling of unknown programs just isn't compatible with most independent lab tests, though the company has announced that AV-Test is working on switching to a compatible test regimen. Webroot SecureAnywhere Internet Security Plus (2014) malware removal chart For more detail on how I conduct this malware removal test, please see How We Test Malware Removal. It scores 6.6 points, sharing first place with Bitdefender Internet Security (2014) and F-Secure Internet Security 2014. Webroot detected 89 percent of the samples, more than any other suite tested using the same sample collection. The process took hours of remote control by tech support and involved threat-specific tools from Webroot and third parties, as well as one-off cleanup scripts written by the support agents. On two systems it advised contacting tech support for manual removal. It installed in a flash on all but one of my malware-infested test systems, and a quick session with Webroot's bootable remote-control diagnostic system solved a ransomware problem on that holdout.Īt the end of any scan that found malware, Webroot re-scans to make sure no traces remain. Webroot installs in minutes and immediately performs a full scan it's done with that scan before most products would have finished installing and updating.
You really, really should read my review of Webroot SecureAnywhere Antivirus (2014) to fully understand the antivirus, as this review will simply summarize my findings. I put extra effort into testing, to verify that it does what it says. It does include signatures for common threats in its cloud-based system, but its primary means of detecting malware involves tracking hundreds of program behaviors and traits.
Unusual Antivirus The typical antivirus relies on a combination of signature-based detection and behavioral or heuristic detection, but Webroot isn't typical.
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