![]() With the primary attack vectors coming via web and email traffic you would think that there would be a Outlook plug in right? Well I was surprised to find out that there isn’t one. Since most infection attack surfaces come via the web or email this is important. There are a lot of web protections built in including advising you during your web searches as seen below. The client blocked the websites from loading all the way. “ – Gartner Group EPP report 12-22-2014 Back to RealityĪs for my own testing, I was not able to infect my PC using some websites I know to be troublesome mostly due to the integration into my web browsers. ![]() Webroot SecureAnywhere is a reasonable shortlist inclusion for organizations in supported geographies that are seeking a lightweight, behavior-based approach to malware detection. Consequently, remediation of ransomware such as Cryptolocker is possible by restoring data files from journaled versions, even if the initial infection evades detection. Webroot is the only vendor in this analysis that reports on malware dwell time. By journaling changes undertaken by unknown files, Webroot provides rapid remediation once malware behavior is detected. The cloud lookup results in a very small and fast EPP client. Webroot SecureAnywhere works by monitoring all new or highly changed files or processes, and checks file metadata and behavior against the cloud database of known files and behaviors. “ The cloud lookup classifies all files as good, bad or unknown, providing a higher degree of confidence in detection accuracy. Webroot SecureAnywhere is one of the few products to focus primarily on behavioral rules to identify threats. I was able to find The Gartner group report that places them in the visionary quadrant with one of the main selling points being malware behavior detection as shown in this quote: However, many of the independent labs have not tested Webroot much in the last 4+ years. So then the next question is how effective is it? Well I had been reading about Webroot at PC mag which does a pretty good job of reviewing anitivus suites for both home and business. ![]() ![]() We will get into that in the next section. This scan performance is probably due to the way that Webroot looks for a virus or malware. Manual Scans were super fast after the initial one which was also fast and the scheduled scans seem to work without issue. Notice that the snipping tool consumes almost 5 times the memory!! After I performed some more tests things were very similar to the Passmark whitepaper on their site. This was the memory footprint of the antivirus client while idle. I did my own investigation on my own PC and here is what I found. After reading the whitepapers regarding the performance I was a little skeptical. Webroot however, uses a fraction of the CPU cycles, memory size, scanning performance, and disk space of any antivirus I have ever seen! Check out the stats here. ESET has always been pretty good in that regard. This is something that some antivirus makers never get (Symantec I am looking at you…). There is no sense in having an effective antivirus if it grinds your computer to a halt or makes it sluggish for that matter. Test PC specifications: Lenovo ThinkCentre Edge 71, Win 10 Pro(圆4), 4GB RAM, Core i3-2120, Intel 180GB SSD, Office 2016Īntivirus footprint is an important part of evaluating an antivirus. ![]() After getting to know the product and having used it now for 30 days, I can tell you that this is a top notch product in almost all aspects of premium antivirus clients. So when I was recently recommended by a colleague to check out the latest Webroot business antivirus client I wasn’t really looking for another antivirus since ESET had always treated me well. As far as small business antivirus is concerned I have always been an ESET fan. ![]()
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