Webroot Websecure Anywhere VS Ransomware
- Thread starter Ashwin kumar
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It is advised to take all reviews with a grain of salt. In extreme cases some reviews use dramatization for entertainment purposes.
- Jul 28, 2016
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now that's a great start for 2020 , having a good laugh on the green kool aid kid..... 
why does the outcome of this test wasn't a big surprise....
why does the outcome of this test wasn't a big surprise.... 
The video says it all it use to be pretty good software back in the day I believe they bought out a company called Prev X.... which use to score very high looks like Webroot has made a joke out of the product....
It seems Webroot, by way of Carbonite, got acquired recently by a firm called OpenText. Not excusing anything but maybe, you know...uh. Duh. Ok, never mind.
Happy New Year's Day, everyone!
Happy New Year's Day, everyone!
- May 26, 2014
- 1,056
Webroot has a lot of customers,this is what really makes no sense,They must have a strong marketing department,selling ice to Eskimos,a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic,lights on no bodies home,but its so light on the system! goods deals on a bridge in Brooklyn,Snake Oil guarantee to help you loose weight,regrow hair on your head,oh in case I forget you will feel 20 years younger
It's really light. Which I believe is what attracted people to it in the first place.
- Nov 3, 2019
- 413
When Webroot first hit the market they were a promising up coming company with a good product. As time went on many of the brains behind their product left sold out.............than sold out again............... does not look good
For me, it's not the Webroot product per se. You can supplement and tweak just about anything into good security. I hope current development will breathe new life into it, seriously.
The problem I had was with the attitude of exclusivity by the Webroot product forum regulars, where it seemed only a chosen few were intelligent and worthy enough to run the product. Everyone else was. That ended, obviously, but one remembers these things. 
The problem I had was with the attitude of exclusivity by the Webroot product forum regulars, where it seemed only a chosen few were intelligent and worthy enough to run the product. Everyone else was
. That ended, obviously, but one remembers these things. 
- Sep 8, 2019
- 461
Its straight up sad seeing people claiming to be so happy using webroot, its almost like it doesnt do anything at all.
- Nov 3, 2019
- 413
Currently their forum is not what it use to be. They feel they have all the answers and the members stay side by side protecting each other.
I remember the first generation Webroot branded SpySweeper was actually a pretty good PUA/adware remover. It would do about as good of a job as Spybot/Ad-Aware but scan in a fraction of the time. But that was a long long time ago, in the era of BonziBuddy, and it seems like these days there's little reason to look at Webroot.
- Jun 23, 2018
- 434
Ally Bank gives it away free, which is how I got it a couple years ago. I ran it on my ancient Core Duo laptop because it was light, though it had frequent FP's so I didn't install it on my newer Windows 10 laptop. Members at DSLR also complain that WR creates massive database files, in one case reaching 98 GB!
- May 16, 2018
- 1,363
That's exactly how I tried it.... through the free license through Ally Bank.
And in the simplest homegrown testing, I was amazed how badly it was failing.... which is exactly what happened over and over again here in Malware Hub. It really is Insecure Everywhere.
For any with their eyes open.... The Green Kool-Aid dream is over.
OH YEAAHH!
When I registered a decade ago to be a closed beta tester for the newly born Webroot, successor of Prevx, it was indeed very good and shown lot of promises. I was a big fan, I was the one heavily promoting it here at MT, made reviews and guide to show how potent and promising it was.
Sadly during this decade of testing, it didn't improve by a cent. Slowly falling behind every others.
For example, took them a almost a decade (until last year) to implement script blocking where others had it since ages. They promised anti-exploit a year ago, well it is still a promise...
Sure fanboys have their part of responsibility, they all had the same stupid argument " I never got infected so it is super-strong" sure...but did they ran scriptors or more complex malware? Serious pentesters did, Webroot failed...
It failed so much that they found a revolutionary argument "people don't know how it works", sure there is many security professionals and experts who tested it, but when it comes to Webroot, they suddenly all becomes noob lol.
To me the real responsible is Webroot itself, fanboys are peanuts distilling their biased opinion only on forums. The Webroot dev/support are the real problem denying reported vulnerabilities discovered by their own consumers/testers.
When i use a security soft, I don't care how light it is if it can't protect me against modern conplex malware. I don't care about the ordinary ones, I care about threats average product can't stop properly.
I still have my closed tester license, I don't even use it. I wish I could but Webroot doesn't fill any role in my security strategy, I even prefer WD lol.
I still hope they improve, because I still like the concept, and we all know harder you like something, harder the criticism... but more i see, less hope I have...
Sadly during this decade of testing, it didn't improve by a cent. Slowly falling behind every others.
For example, took them a almost a decade (until last year) to implement script blocking where others had it since ages. They promised anti-exploit a year ago, well it is still a promise...
Sure fanboys have their part of responsibility, they all had the same stupid argument " I never got infected so it is super-strong" sure...but did they ran scriptors or more complex malware? Serious pentesters did, Webroot failed...
It failed so much that they found a revolutionary argument "people don't know how it works", sure there is many security professionals and experts who tested it, but when it comes to Webroot, they suddenly all becomes noob lol.
To me the real responsible is Webroot itself, fanboys are peanuts distilling their biased opinion only on forums. The Webroot dev/support are the real problem denying reported vulnerabilities discovered by their own consumers/testers.
When i use a security soft, I don't care how light it is if it can't protect me against modern conplex malware. I don't care about the ordinary ones, I care about threats average product can't stop properly.
I still have my closed tester license, I don't even use it. I wish I could but Webroot doesn't fill any role in my security strategy, I even prefer WD lol.
I still hope they improve, because I still like the concept, and we all know harder you like something, harder the criticism... but more i see, less hope I have...
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- Jul 28, 2016
- 950
Wow I totally forgot about that : the hayday of webroot....it was incorpersted into the first version of hitman pro , when spyware was on the rise and seemed to be the biggest threat back then. They also had window washer which was a really good junk cleaner , was a good junk cleaner back than. Too bad that they stopped in progression and that the fanboys keep defending it into the grave....webroot is done and dusted. Time to move on....
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