Hello and Welcome to the Webroot Community!

 

MBAM Realtime yes AVG free or paid it should be as we have not heard anything as WSA is designed to work along side other AV's if need be. But I don't feel that you would need AVG IMO. See here: http://www.brightcloud.com/platform/webroot-intelligence-network.php

 

HTH,

 

Daniel ;)

 

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With the PRC sites i frequent i can only say thank you WRSA for keeping my machine clean as otherwise i'd have to do a monthly re-install from scratch.

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Also see here about AVG just in case you didn't know: https://community.webroot.com/t5/Security-Industry-News/AVG-Chrome-Extension-Exposes-User-Data/td-p/233972

 

Thanks,

 

Daniel

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So does that mean that all of the webroot protection products fully leverage the WIN?

 

Or is it used more or less aggressively if you are a home user vs a business user vs a complete user?

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Only one WIN Cloud!

 



 

Also this is when Webroot aquired Prevx in 2010 which became Webroot SecureAnywhere and notice the info below.

 

Tiny Local App

Jaroch explained that all the SecureAnywhere products are exactly the same file, with different features turned on based on which license key you use. Where most security suite installers weigh in anywhere from 60MB to well over 200MB, SecureAnywhere would fit on a floppy disk, so there's no reason to create separate versions.

Jaroch's team totally built the product from the ground up using raw C code. There are no embedded bitmaps, no visual tool libraries, no buttons. Every element of the user interface is rendered as needed.

"If you snap a screenshot of our product and save it as a bitmap, the screenshot will be bigger than the product itself," Jaroch said. Morris added that this minuscule local client leaves little "surface area" exposed to attack by malware.

 

Immense Cloud Database

One reason the local application can be so tiny is that it doesn't include any malware signatures, Morris explained. The Prevx technology relies entirely on an immense database of applications and behaviors in the cloud. This database collects and correlates an almost-unimaginable amount of information about every process ever run on any system with SecureAnywhere (or Prevx) installed. Along with the expected notes about process behavior it correlates things like the geographic location, browser version, and other elements of the sample's "habitat."

According to Morris, this database, code named ENZO, can include as many as two million database rows for a single process.

"Cybersecurity is all about information," said Morris. "We store and correlate all the factors about the process's behavior in all the places it was seen. We aim to have more information than anyone, so we can offer better protection than anyone."

 

 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392059,00.asp

 

Also look at this to see What Happens if WSA misses something:

 



 

Thanks,

 

Daniel 😉

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And to answer your question about home vs business and basic vs complete, they all use the same engine and cloud capability to the same degree.



For business the difference is in the console functionality to allow you to manage many endpoints and do reporting.



The Plus and Complete versions provide additional functionality in the form of a password manager and the backup & sync features. The base AV and malware protection works the same across all the products.

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