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You're able to add more devices and years to your license, making big savings long-term. Webroot doesn't require credit card details to use its trials, but you will have to register with your name and email address. The website then provides you with a download link and day license key. Installation is speedy, which is no surprise when the package is so lightweight that there's almost nothing to do.

Webroot can run alongside most other antivirus apps, too, with none of the usual conflicts or hassles. After setup is complete, Webroot launches and runs an initial system scan. This took under a minute on our test PC, but still found a couple of adware-related items on our test system which other antivirus products typically ignore.

You can review or deal with any results in a click or two, then leave Webroot to get on with protecting your PC. Whatever you're doing, it doesn't look like Webroot will have any real impact on your system resources. The package added only two background processes to our PC — one user application, one service — which typically consumed under 10MB RAM, just about as undemanding as an antivirus can be.

Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus has a more cluttered interface than most of the competition, crammed with panels, icons, switches, tiny buttons and plenty of text. If you prefer to leave your antivirus alone, this might not matter very much. The app protects you automatically just as soon as it's installed, and if you're ever worried about a possible infection, the console's large and very obvious 'Scan My Computer' button makes it clear what you need to do. Locating other features can be more tricky.

Whatever scan we chose was speedy in the extreme. The Quick Scan lived up to its name, completing in seconds; the intensive Deep Scan took two minutes 15 seconds, and the rest were somewhere in between. Detection rates were good, with the program picking up all our sample threats. It even blocked one of our test apps, a tool we use to run various exploits: no other antivirus has picked up on its potential dangers, before we could even launch it.

But Webroot had an unusually high number of false positives, too. We use the excellent PCMark Professional to measure any performance impact of an antivirus, for example. But Webroot flagged an entirely innocent PCMark component as a threat, apparently just because it's written in Autoit a scripting language sometimes used by malware.

That's also something we've not seen from any other antivirus. URL filtering combines Webroot's vast database of malicious websites with real-time anti-phishing to keep you safe from harm. And this did a solid job for us, regularly blocking malicious sites which Chrome and Windows missed. Bug fixes. Backup settings are retained when logging in as a different user. Compatibility with MalwareBytes AntiExploit. Minor graphical fixes. Added Hardened the scan progress against active rootkits.

Hijacked desktop backgrounds are now reset automatically on Windows XP after the cleanup completes. Detection for a new set of VBScript threats. Improved Scanning of locked files. Cleanup of active threats to avoid reboots.

Free Antivirus While other suites have a heavy focus on detecting known malware usually requiring stacks of background processes and regular downloads of bulky signature definitions , Webroot spends most of its time on smart behavior monitoring, allowing it to detect even the very latest threats.

This makes for an amazingly compact app - 15MB on our review PC, vs. The Webroot site claims it's 60x faster than some competitors. Despite its small size, Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus still manages a lengthy feature list: antivirus , real-time antiphishing, an extra anti-ransomware layer, a simple firewall and network monitor.

An Identity Protection feature includes a collection of tools designed to prevent websites and malware from accessing your data. There's protection from keyloggers, dubious browser add-ons, cookie and website data stealing, unauthorized screen grabbers, and more. Internet Security Complete with Antivirus adds automatic deletion of your web activities, and an online backup service with 25GB of secure online storage. There's no option to add extra devices to the license.

This isn't outstanding value, but it's in the range we'd expect. Bitdefender has more billing flexibility, though. You're able to add more devices and years to your license, making big savings long-term.

Webroot doesn't require credit card details to use its trials, but you will have to register with your name and email address. The website then provides you with a download link and day license key. Installation is speedy, which is no surprise when the package is so lightweight that there's almost nothing to do. Webroot can run alongside most other antivirus apps, too, with none of the usual conflicts or hassles. After setup is complete, Webroot launches and runs an initial system scan.

This took under a minute on our test PC, but still found a couple of adware-related items on our test system which other antivirus products typically ignore. You can review or deal with any results in a click or two, then leave Webroot to get on with protecting your PC.

Whatever you're doing, it doesn't look like Webroot will have any real impact on your system resources. The package added only two background processes to our PC — one user application, one service — which typically consumed under 10MB RAM, just about as undemanding as an antivirus can be.

Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus has a more cluttered interface than most of the competition, crammed with panels, icons, switches, tiny buttons and plenty of text. If you prefer to leave your antivirus alone, this might not matter very much. The app protects you automatically just as soon as it's installed, and if you're ever worried about a possible infection, the console's large and very obvious 'Scan My Computer' button makes it clear what you need to do.

Locating other features can be more tricky. Whatever scan we chose was speedy in the extreme.