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Webroot Premium Review

3.0

Webroot Premium combines the company's antivirus with identity protection, but competing services offer more in both areas.

By Neil J. Rubenking
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Webroot Essentials for Mac Review

3.5

Webroot Essentials for Mac requires minimal disk space and earned excellent scores in our hands-on antivirus tests, but independent labs don't vouch for it.

By Neil J. Rubenking
Webroot Essentials for Mac

Webroot Essentials Review

4.0

The non-traditional malware detection style used by Webroot Essentials doesn’t always match lab tests, but it's small and it earned top scores in our hands-on tests.

By Neil J. Rubenking
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Webroot Premium Protects Your Online Presence: Now 50% Off

Now is the perfect time to protect yourself against identity theft and other security threats.

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Webroot Wi-Fi Security VPN Review

3.0

Webroot provides a no-frills VPN at an affordable price, or as an add-on to your Webroot antivirus purchase. It's a serviceable option, but you can find more robust VPNs without paying much more.

By Max Eddy

Bitdefender vs. Webroot: Which Top Antivirus Keeps You Safer?

Bitdefender and Webroot are both Editors' Choice winners for antivirus, but they have very different approaches to detecting and deflecting malware. We take a closer look at these two top picks to see which one is best for you.

By Neil J. Rubenking

Windows 7 Is Dead: Long Live Your Antivirus!

Microsoft dropped support for Windows 7 in January, and your antivirus company is free to drop support as well. Will your antivirus keep working even if you don't upgrade?

By Neil J. Rubenking
Windows 7 Is Dead: Long Live Your Antivirus

Business Choice Awards 2020: Security Software

The first line of defense on a work PC is antivirus and security suites to protect the device, you, and the whole office. But which brand is the best?

By Eric Griffith
Business Choice Award 2020 - Security Software

Readers' Choice Awards 2020: Antivirus & Security Suite Software

Protect your PC (and yourself) with the best brands of security software, as picked by thousands of PCMag readers.

By Ben Gottesman
Readers' Choice Awards 2020: Antivirus, Security Suite Software

Most Americans Neglect Cyber Security Basics (Especially Mississippians)

On average, Americans scored 60 percent, or a D rating, on Webroot's "cyber hygiene" test. Those from Mississippi, Louisiana, and California scored the lowest.

By Angela Moscaritolo
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Business Choice Awards 2019: Security Software

We asked PCMag readers to pick their anti-malware and antivirus tools of choice for the office, and their top picks probably won't surprise you.

By Eric Griffith
Business Choice Awards 2019: Security Software

Readers' Choice Awards 2019: Antivirus, Security Suite Software

Our first Readers' Choice survey that asks you to rate the software that keeps you safe includes a few surprises we can't keep in quarantine any longer.

By Ben Gottesman
Readers' Choice Awards 2019: Antivirus and Security Suites

Webroot SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection Review

3.5

Against standard malware, Webroot SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection is an excellent product. But we found it has trouble detecting more bleeding-edge attacks, such as the newer scripting attacks. Still, with an excellent overall set of tools, Webroot is definitely worth checking out after this problem is patched.

By Daniel Brame
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The 50 Best Cloud Services for SMBs

We've tested hundreds of SaaS-based services for small businesses. Read on to learn about 50 of the best we've ever reviewed.

By Juan Martinez
20 of the Best Cloud Services for SMBs

Adware Hits Equifax Website

Equifax.com visitors were offered a fake Flash Player update that installed adware. Equifax blames a third-party performance data vendor, which served malicious content

By Matthew Humphries
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AVG CloudCare Review

3.5

AVG CloudCare is a value-priced, easy-to-deploy and administer, cloud-based endpoint protection solution. It offers good protection, but lacks some required business features for larger organizations. Nonetheless, AVG CloudCare is a good option for small business without complex security environments.

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The Best Business Products of 2016

We've tested several hundred Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business applications in the PC Labs over the past year, and found that 42 SaaS apps are the heads of their classes in 13 categories. These are the ones you should buy for your business to prepare for success in 2017.

By PCMag Staff
The Best Business Products of 2016

Keeping Malware Out of Your Home Office

Antivirus and security software has never been so important, and your choices have never been so varied. Our home office columnist takes a look.

By Eric Grevstad
Keeping Malware Out of Your Home Office

Privacy-as-a-Service Scatters Data in Disappearing Clouds

New security start-up leverages ephemeral cloud infrastructure to safeguard business data.

By Rob Marvin
Cloud Security

Potentially Unwanted Apps, Malware More Common Than Trusted Apps

We are so bogged down on SMS messages and other malicious Android apps that we forget about how potentially unwanted apps can also wreak havoc on our mobile devices.

By Fahmida Y. Rashid
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