Webroot SecureAnywhere AV

thanks Kees, just what the Doctor ordered. thank you

 

Kees You've assured me to keep using WSA.

 

Good discussion. Noticed that Webroot SecureAnywhere Antivirus 2013 (3 user) is on sale on newegg.com today for $9.99 with free shipping.

Newegg is also offering MBAM (1 user) for $12.00 this weekend with free shipping. Combine these two and you have a nice and very light security setup.

 

If you change the slider after changing the advanced configuration, it will overwrite the manual minor changes you made. I'll take a look at making this more obvious - thanks!

 

That's for sure. I'm using the exact setup. And boy is it light or what. The price is awesome. Thanks InfinityAz.

 

With internal protection at its default (max), you get advanced tracking of file and registry changes (so when an intrusion/infection is found, the changes can be selectively undone by the real time shield). Also system objects/processes, HKLM autostart entries and windows protected files can't be touched. So you won't get an UAC warning, WSA will block this (sort of essential LUA rights sandbox). Sort of running these processes as run safer/drop rights/mandatory medium integrity level (not exactly the same but simular).

 

I have seen this on the Webroot Community Forums and it was suggested to ignore that warning message as it's just Norton doesn't want to share it's space with WSA and tells you to remove it and as you said they have been working well together.

TH

 

I am not familiar with webroot, it's performance on AV comparatives file detection for Sep 2012 was dire. Not even standard, and the fp's seem extreme in April and September. Also I can't see it in the proactive tests. So why are people raving about it. Cheers

 

Because you should try it yourself and see... Don't always believe what is reported in tests.

 

Softpedia is having a 25% off sale right now:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Webroot-SecureAnywhere-Antivirus.shtml

 

I have the resource usage in the middle setting, and WSA currently shows it has used 0.01% of CPU since installation.

 

The laptop has a simple dual core version (scaled down i3). Plus advanced untrusted process monitoring

 

Ah thanks, sounds very interesting, are your internet-facing apps still able to update or do you have to temporarily put them to trusted again?

 

not touching this with a pinch of salt....

I trust AV Comparatives and the results of webroot are appaling. How do you know you currently don't have a virus? Because Webroot didn't detect/report anything? Maybe you have a virus or 2 and dont even know it

I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if I had Webroot installed and I saw these results:

http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart2.php

 

Some people put way too much faith in certain testing companies. WSA has scored very by in other tests, including peoples own real world testing.

 

Too many tests and too many may be... Still to see someone having a bad experience with WSA and malware on a day to day use . And WSA is one of the few conmpanies out there that ensure clean-up otherwise they give back the money of your subscription. They would not do that if they have a crappy detection or cleaning

 

I suggest you see what I've posted in several other threads: the yellow bar is a detection which defaults to block and shows a very clear warning dialog. We're going to be changing it to just automatically block them as they are extremely rare for the average user. I certainly sleep completely fine at night as I know how well we actually protect our users.

 

Based on what Prevx Help said I understand the yellow bar in the chart means the samples were blocked and the user was warned. Why do you believe that's insufficient?

 

Webroot = 98.5% blocked. Quite good.

 

I don't want to get bogged down in figures , from March to Oct in the tests in the link posted Webroot comes last.

I realise it has excellent performance, but its not even free, £29.99

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Attachment removed. Copying results from the site of AV comparatives is against their TOS.

 

AVC isn't the end all be all. WSA is not nearly as bad as they make it look.

 

Tests says little about real strengths.... users base can give better evidence.

 

Joe, I think the option to have the choice to apply the chosen action is a no brainer. It might be good if you could only choose this option with default settings. With the explination that higher settings may cause a chance of a false positive. Just as Avira does when a user chooses the highest setting.

 

And the reason I say it is, WSA is the perfect software for all family computers. And if it is on my kids, any pop-ups asking to allow or block, well they choose allow because they know choosing block will slow them down from what they are doing. Yep, I want it to apply the action, the heck with the kids.

 

I agree. At the moment, out of the box, the prompt will default to Block so frankly, I think it should be counted as a full green block. However, we're going to be making this very obvious in one of the next builds. I don't know if it will come soon enough for the next month but it will definitely be here soon.