The normal experience with Antivirus is that it pesters you to make choices, slows down the computer, takes up tons of space, and takes forever to get to work. Webroot took that and turned it upside down.

DISCLAIMER: I do NOT test the official efficacy (effectiveness, detection rate, etc) of Antivirus Products. I leave that up to the labs (though with this there is some concern about lab tests... More about that below). As such this review is about the product and general experience with it but is not any guarantee or statement of how effective it is.

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Praise (The Good Stuff)
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- Super-small install. The program is under a megabyte and will download in under ten seconds on most internet connections these days.
- Makes intelligent decisions without harassing the user.
- Upgraded to for free for existing customers.
- Very fast scanning.
- Extremely light on the computer.
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After having been using definition-based antivirus software for years, I decided to move into the future and check out cloud-based/heuristic antivirus software. Upon reviewing several antivirus software companies, I decided to put my faith in Webroot. This is my declaration that this action was one of the best things I could have done.

Upon downloading the original installation files, I immediately found that Webroot was smaller and quicker than most antivirus software. The installation was easy, and catered to the user with it's ease; it was also not bulky like definition-based antivirus software is. At first, I figured that this meant it was simply an installer that would then download a much larger database worth of data. But, I soon came to realize just how powerful cloud-based antivirus software actually is; there was no need for all that unnecessary data!

After fully installing it, I immediately went to work on testing the product. I put one of my three... Read more

I have tried the best known brand names. All failed to fully protect my computer. When getting my computer repaired Webroot was recommended so I gave it a try. That was 2 years ago and my computer hasn't been back for repairs since!
I just signed up for 2 more years. This is excellent software!