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Time to say goodbye to Webroot
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<blockquote data-quote="roger_m" data-source="post: 840523" data-attributes="member: 31436"><p>[USER=67595]@Lobito Punky[/USER] Quite a few people here have a very negative opinion of Webroot for two reasons. Firstly, it consistently does terribly in testing. It does worse than big name antiviruses. Usually much worse. Secondly, even though it's definitely not a good antivirus, there are some die hard fans of it, who insist it is an excellent product, no matter how much evidence they are given to the contrary. When told that it consistently does badly when testing, they say that testing doesn't matter. Some even insist that those who criticise Webroot, just don't understand how it works. Which is ridiculous, as the evidence is very clear that it does terribly at detecting recent malware. I've never seen any other antivirus have die hard fans that blindly keep insisting that it works well, when it doesn't.</p><p></p><p>You only have to have a look in the MalwareHub here and see how badly it does. The best I've seen it do is to detect just over half the malware samples it was tested against. On the other hand, some of the big name antiviruses often detect just about every single malware sample.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="roger_m, post: 840523, member: 31436"] [USER=67595]@Lobito Punky[/USER] Quite a few people here have a very negative opinion of Webroot for two reasons. Firstly, it consistently does terribly in testing. It does worse than big name antiviruses. Usually much worse. Secondly, even though it's definitely not a good antivirus, there are some die hard fans of it, who insist it is an excellent product, no matter how much evidence they are given to the contrary. When told that it consistently does badly when testing, they say that testing doesn't matter. Some even insist that those who criticise Webroot, just don't understand how it works. Which is ridiculous, as the evidence is very clear that it does terribly at detecting recent malware. I've never seen any other antivirus have die hard fans that blindly keep insisting that it works well, when it doesn't. You only have to have a look in the MalwareHub here and see how badly it does. The best I've seen it do is to detect just over half the malware samples it was tested against. On the other hand, some of the big name antiviruses often detect just about every single malware sample. [/QUOTE]
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