Hello aemarshor,

 

Welcome to the Community!

 

 

Botnets are rogue networks of compromised "zombie" PCs. Your machine can become infected if you visit a site and download tainted code disguised as a video, if you visit a site that itself has been compromised, or if a traditional virus or other piece of malware enters your system. Once a bot infects your PC, it calls out to its command-and-control (CnC) server for instructions. A bot is similar to a traditional Trojan horse; but rather than merely installing a keylogger or a password stealer (which it might still do anyway), a bot works with other infected PCs, compelling them all to act together, in some ways like a very large computer.

 

Spammers pay big money to have a bot blast their message to thousands of machines.

 

And go here for more information http://www.webroot.com/us/en/home/resources/tips/pc-security/security-what-are-bots-botnets-and-zombies

 

So the answer is yes Webroot protects you.

 

EDIT: As the article states..

By downloading the content you bring the malicious code past your security checkpoints where they can try to clean the malware off your machine, but they have no way of defending against it being downloaded in the first place. Always use extreme caution when downloading information or files from someone whose computer is not protected.

 

  

Best Regards,

 

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