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<blockquote data-quote="BSONE" data-source="post: 1124077" data-attributes="member: 108351">I remember using Webroot over 10 years ago, This was shortlly after they acquired Prevx and it had a very minimalist UI with a little green Wizball icon in the system tray. I remember using it with another AV at the time and it worked quite well. After some time I started to use it on it&#039;s own and I was happy with it. I never knowingly got infected, and it even saved me once when I clicked on a video that I downloaded with a double file extension.Webroot at the time was one of the first cloud based Antivirus solutions. They explained it quite well with their Brightcloud webinars, which were very good actually.The biggest issue that I had with webroot though was not their lack of signature updates (as their cloud AV was good), but the fact that they kept on harping on about their rollback feature which they touted as the panacea solution for everything. The problem with relying on Rollback is that if you are infected with an Infostealer, Webroot will not reverse transactions that drained your personal bank account of your life savings, nor fraudulent transactions on your Visa or Amex card used to buy Gucci hand bags in Milan. The same goes for your Google, Microsoft and iCloud accounts: all ransacked of useful and personal information. As the old adage says &quot;Prevention is better than cure&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BSONE, post: 1124077, member: 108351"] I remember using Webroot over 10 years ago, This was shortlly after they acquired Prevx and it had a very minimalist UI with a little green Wizball icon in the system tray. I remember using it with another AV at the time and it worked quite well. After some time I started to use it on it's own and I was happy with it. I never knowingly got infected, and it even saved me once when I clicked on a video that I downloaded with a double file extension. Webroot at the time was one of the first cloud based Antivirus solutions. They explained it quite well with their Brightcloud webinars, which were very good actually. The biggest issue that I had with webroot though was not their lack of signature updates (as their cloud AV was good), but the fact that they kept on harping on about their rollback feature which they touted as the panacea solution for everything. The problem with relying on Rollback is that if you are infected with an Infostealer, Webroot will not reverse transactions that drained your personal bank account of your life savings, nor fraudulent transactions on your Visa or Amex card used to buy Gucci hand bags in Milan. The same goes for your Google, Microsoft and iCloud accounts: all ransacked of useful and personal information. As the old adage says "Prevention is better than cure" [/QUOTE]

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