Webroot Antivirus With Antispyware & Firewall
- Webroot AntiVirus with AntiSpyware & Firewall offers 360 degrees of powerful, multi-layer protection against viruses, spyware, data theft and hackers and is now compatible with Windows Vista.
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(out of 7 reviews)
List Price: $ 39.95
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Review by Vince Page for Webroot Antivirus With Antispyware & Firewall
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My experience with the webroot package began about 6 months ago when Norton began hanging (failing to finish its scans) on a Windows XP and a Windows Vista computer. I first installed the webroot product on the Windows XP machine and noticed that it always took between 5 – 10 minutes to boot the software up. After several discussions with webroot personnel, I came to the conclusion that this software simply must have a minimum of 1 Gb memory to work properly (the XP machine only had 512K). After upgrading the system memory, there were no further problems. The webroot software worked fine on the Vista machines from the start because they already had sufficient memory.
What you get for your trouble is a very powerful antivirus + anti-spyware combination that is much more adept at finding and eliminating threats than Norton ever was. It is also the first package I’ve used that effectively stops homepage highjacking, even from the dreaded msn and runonce issues. Just specify the homepage you want in the antivirus program, then in your web browser, reboot, and the problem is gone.
The key here is that you must have 1 Gb of memory for this software to work properly, so if you don’t have a full gig or you don’t know how much you have, go to [...] where you can scan your computer to see what you have and buy additional memory if needed.
I have now installed this software on 7 computers (3 Vista, 4 XP) and it works great every time. All 4 XP machines required memory upgrades.
Review by davige for Webroot Antivirus With Antispyware & Firewall
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I’d say their support was bad but it was NONEXISTENT! 3 unanswered emails and 45 min. on hold before I hung up. Web based support cases get automatically ‘CLOSED’ with no more than an automated response ‘check our support links’. BAD, BAD, BAD.
Review by Trent M. Robertson for Webroot Antivirus With Antispyware & Firewall
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I have had this antivirus for about 4 years, and I have noticed that the program is taking longer and longer to load. Lately, it has been taking about 4 – 5 minutes at start up. Every other program will start up quickly, and my computer acts seems like it is done loading everything, but you can tell something is lurking in the background. If you try to run a program at this time, nothing will happen. About four minutes later…voila! There is the happy Webroot tray symbol! Oh, but it isn’t done, it will say “loading…” for another 2 – 3 minutes.
Overall, once the program is up, it works beautifully at removing viruses and spyware on the fly and on full scans. My only complaint is the slow start up time.
Review by R. Steinmetz for Webroot Antivirus With Antispyware & Firewall
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After receiving the product and trying to install the product, a message came back (from my computer) stating this product is not compatible with Vista 64 bit. The Webroot product at that point was unusable. The box says Vista compatible but this must be an earlier version of Webroot, Not very happy with this result.
Review by southerner for Webroot Antivirus With Antispyware & Firewall
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I used Norton on my first computer back in 2000. It was ok. It did its job by protecting my computer from spyware and viruses. However, it did crash my computer once in a while (not good when finishing a report!), and it sometimes made my computer performance slow. When I bought my new computer in 2005, I saw the original Spysweeper (without antivirus) on sale for $5.00, and I decided to give it a try.
I’m so glad I switched. I originally signed up for the one year subscription, and it has done a great job protecting my computer from all kinds of spyware stuff that I didn’t know existed. Best of all, it does not crash or slow up my computer. When my one year subscription was up in 2006, the antivirus came out with spysweeper, and it is even better.
Since then, I’ve had no problems with any viruses or spy cookies on my computer. I just run a sweep every week, and it eliminates all that stuff from my computer with ease. For you info: I’m running Windows XP (2nd pack).
I will not consider another antispyware and antivirus software. This product is worth the price. Webroot will give you a discount if you’re a continued subscriber. Just a side note: If you’re having problems with it running updates while you’re online doing something important, you can either set the updates to run with your connection speed (dial-up vs. DSL), or you can just turn it off completely. However, I don’t recommend turning it off for very long, as it constantly keeps up with current spyware and virus definitions coming out everyday.