Webroot Spy Sweeper
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DISenchanted
> 24 hourI have used this for years. Ive been in PC maint and repair for almost 20 years; going back to the old IBM XTs. Spysweeper and sunbelt softwares Counterspy have held the #1 and #2 slots for anti-spyware, in a lot of reviews over the last few years. However, as of today, it seems sort of stupid to sell this individual product in todays online environment. The only reason I can see is if you have an anti-malware product and want this one as a 2nd opinion. Todays online user needs 3 things: - anti-virus -anti-malware -firewall It seems smarter to sell a complete security suite and let someone only install a single component; if they desire. Why sell single parts and have end users trying to piecemeal products together from different vendors??? I currently have 3 PCs. Each has a different product for protection. One has kaspersky, the 2nd has sunbelt softwares Vipre anti-virus, anti-spy and the 3rd has webroots security suite. (I can use one pc to scan another, if a pest slips past one particular vendors product). In the past 2 months, Ive seen Sunbelts product Vipre [replaced their previous Counterspy product] do a better job than webroot. One time webroot IDd some of my autocad files as malware and since my settings were to auto-delete malware; it removed them. (I since changed my settings to quarantine for 2 days, then delete). A second event occurred when a bunch of files (appears to have been false positives) got quarantined. I had to recover them. I think webroot is slipping in performance.
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Paul F. Dolby Jr.
> 24 hourThis product was out of date when I received it. The product kept blocking Norton so I removed it from my computer,I rate it horrible ineffective.
