Webroot AntiVirus 2010 With Spy Sweeper Review Discussion

By Charles P. Jefferies

Webroot is a familiar name in the PC security industry. We take a look at their recently-releasedAntiVirus 2010 with Spy Sweepersuite and find out if it is worth $39.95.

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It's hilarious the ridiculous amount of anti-virus solutions available for Windoze and the amount of money needlessly spent by consumers when they could install the superior Linux OS which doesn't NEED any AV software to be installed!!!!!

Also saw an add recently for the new 'diskkeeper' defragger for Windoze, another software NOT required for linux.

However, if you are stuck with windoze, something like Avira (free version) is all you really need.

 

Errr.... Superior OS? Not really, not for the vast majority of people out there. It takes way to much time and effort to properly set up and maintain a proper linux distro for most people. With windows its set up auto updates, get a decent av suite, and done.

Regardless of that, I still use eset smart security on all my windows machines.

 

Love that the name of their product is also the name of one of the most annoying fakeav viruses in existence

 

I guess you haven't tried a recent distro lately like Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS (just to name 2 out of many user-friendly ones that work out-of-the-box). With a few clicks access to over 18000 software packages. Also using the superior Firefox or Chrome browsers. For web browsing security you can't beat running firefox off a live Linux CD to do banking for example. Also hundreds of amazing add-ons like noscript.

It takes way too much time and effort to clean viruses/trojans on a windoze machine that get by (even on machines that are running AV), cleaning the registry, defragging... It takes ALOT of effort to keep a windoze system clean, secure -- time & ability that most owners don't have. The fact is millions of windoze users are running infected, compromised, bloated, and unsecure machines. It's not just the operating system, it's also their default browser.

 

Actually, I have tried both of those within the last month, trying to get a nice linux dev enviro set up. Neither worked completely out of the box compared to windows 7, which did. And on my windows machines in my house I never ever defrag, clean the registry, or deal with any of that. Now, While I agree that ff off a live cd is one of the most secure ways to browse... Thats way more effort than the average joe is going to go through. And it also doesn't stop hardware keyloggers... THOSE are fun.

Now, onto the millions of infected computers. Yeah, I blame ie6. Such a crap browser. IE7 and IE8 are much better in the security dept, but still suck on the performance dept. And the standards dept. And the toolbar dept.

(Side note: Source >APT >RPM. End. Of. Story.)