Webroot SecureAnywhere uses a number of methods to protect your PC against sophisticated malware attacks that may go undetected by your standard anti-virus software.
This usually results from phishing e-mails or from users visiting websites which automatically download malicious software (or malware). Online fraud is on the rise and in almost every case of internet banking fraud seen to date, the entry point is infection of the device used to access e-banking channels such as HSBC net.
It provides a full spectrum of innovative, cloud-based internet security which includes an advanced approach to malware detection. Webroot SecureAnywhere offers much more than just standard anti-virus protection. Rising online fraud attacks and the case for Webroot SecureAnywhere Webroot SecureAnywhere security software package is being provided at no charge, exclusively to HSBC net online banking customers for use on your PC*. The results were comparable.Maximise your security with advanced SecureAnywhere online protection from Webroot: a complimentary PC download exclusively for HSBC net usersĪs part of our commitment to your online security, we have teamed up with Webroot to offer you award-winning protection against viruses and online threats specifically designed to steal your personal and online banking information. To check its claimed ability to journal activity by an unknown program and roll it back upon detecting it as malicious, I repeated this test with Webroot cut off from the Internet, then reestablished an Internet connection after launching all samples. In the morning it had detected a few more samples. Webroot doesn't flag an unknown program as malicious until it performs a malicious action, so after my baseline malware blocking test I let it run overnight. Webroot SecureAnywhere Internet Security Plus (2014) lab tests chart For a description of the third-party testing labs I follow, please read see How We Interpret Antivirus Lab Tests. The chart below summarizes recent test results, but there's just not enough info from the labs to help evaluate Webroot. Webroot's handling of unknown programs just isn't compatible with most independent lab tests, though the company has announced that AV-Test is working on switching to a compatible test regimen. Webroot SecureAnywhere Internet Security Plus (2014) malware removal chart For more detail on how I conduct this malware removal test, please see How We Test Malware Removal.
It scores 6.6 points, sharing first place with Bitdefender Internet Security (2014) and F-Secure Internet Security 2014. Webroot detected 89 percent of the samples, more than any other suite tested using the same sample collection. The process took hours of remote control by tech support and involved threat-specific tools from Webroot and third parties, as well as one-off cleanup scripts written by the support agents.
On two systems it advised contacting tech support for manual removal.
It installed in a flash on all but one of my malware-infested test systems, and a quick session with Webroot's bootable remote-control diagnostic system solved a ransomware problem on that holdout.Īt the end of any scan that found malware, Webroot re-scans to make sure no traces remain. Webroot installs in minutes and immediately performs a full scan it's done with that scan before most products would have finished installing and updating. You really, really should read my review of Webroot SecureAnywhere Antivirus (2014) to fully understand the antivirus, as this review will simply summarize my findings.
I put extra effort into testing, to verify that it does what it says. It does include signatures for common threats in its cloud-based system, but its primary means of detecting malware involves tracking hundreds of program behaviors and traits. Unusual Antivirus The typical antivirus relies on a combination of signature-based detection and behavioral or heuristic detection, but Webroot isn't typical.