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Webroot Antivirus With Antispyware & Firewall
From: Webroot Software Average Rating: Binding: CD-ROM Feature: 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. Label: Webroot Software Model: 18210 Release Date: October 12, 2007
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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.
Excellent software 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.
Works for me! I set up a new workstation for my wife for light computing only, and I needed at least some protection for the system, so I bought this package because I already have experience with the Webroot Spysweeper product. I was happy to find the spy sweeping and virus protection in one package.
I set up a 2003 era Windows XP machine from scratch, installed this product, and it works fine. If this product adds to the boot-up time for my computer, I sure can't tell.
I don't know if there is a single perfect computer security tool. Most every one has those who swear by it and those who swear at it. I wore myself out one evening reading all sorts of reviews for anti-virus products, and finally decided to buy this one. So far so good.
Slow - Slow - Very Slow! If you like to turn on your computer, have all your programs load immediately, and then wait another 2-4 minutes for this antivirus and firewall program to finally figure out it also needs to load - then this is your program! Then add another 2-3 min for it to actually complete downloading - All the time telling you to wait 1 minute - (which in reality takes 2-3 minutes). I was told by customer service the reason it takes so long to even begin loading upon turn on, is that "it is probably scanning the hard drive" Excuse me! But Norton and PCcillin never scanned before loading! Oh - if you happened to make the mistake of checking the box to update downloads automatically, you should know it decides to do that job at random whenever it decides it wants to! Usually when your in the middle of entering a market order, or entering a number in a spread sheet. The computer freezes until it finishes its slow, slow, slow update! Please, please, look for something else. Norton and PCcillin was never this bad.
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