

As with Trend Micro, if you want more licenses you must upgrade to the next-higher product, or just pay the full price multiple times.Īlong with the simplified pricing, Webroot has dropped the word “SecureAnywhere” from official product names. When last reviewed, it also offered three licenses for $49.99, but at present, there’s no volume discount at all. Like Bitdefender, Kaspersky, and several others, Webroot costs $39.99 for a one-year subscription.

McAfee doesn’t always score as high, but a single subscription protects all your devices. Bitdefender aces independent lab tests and boasts more features than some suites. Two products retain the Editors’ Choice imprimatur in the antivirus realm, Bitdefender Antivirus Plus and McAfee AntiVirus Plus. While we still have a positive impression of Webroot, we're no longer naming it an Editors' Choice winner as we have in the past. Keeping the brains in the cloud makes Webroot amazingly small and fast. If it’s malicious, the tiny local Webroot program wipes out the attacker and reverses its actions. But any program that’s unknown runs in a bubble, with no ability to permanently modify the protected system, while Webroot’s cloud-based analytics determine its fate. It does wipe out malware that it recognizes, and it greenlights known good programs. Webroot AntiVirus takes a slightly different approach from most. There are many ways an antivirus program can detect the presence of malware, ranging from simple signature-based detection to elaborate behavior analysis schemes. Best Hosted Endpoint Protection and Security Software.
