Webroot Antispyware Corporate Edition product review Issue: Feb 2008	printer-friendly

[TABLE] Webroot offers granular controls--globally or by group--for more than a dozen types of Smart Shields that address common threats and vulnerable areas including memory, Internet communication, Windows Messenger Service, alternative data streams and ActiveX.

We set up white lists for commonly flagged items such as legitimate ActiveX controls, rootkit applications, browser toolbars and startup applications.

We were able to assign what was scanned and how often. We could also control how much a memory or file scan could affect CPU usage. This is very useful for slower, older machines.

Reaction options include simple logging, quarantining then deleting after two, seven, 30 or 365 days, or deleting right away. Spyware is broken down into f

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[TABLE]Webroot's reporting has taken leaps forward--granular, flexible and customizable. It weighs threats to create risk assessment scores for individual systems. For instance, viruses, Trojans and monitoring code such as keyloggers are assigned a higher value than adware and tracking cookies. Administrators can quickly see which workstations are infected with malicious code.

Webroot's extensive array of report templates includes threat blocking, quarantining and cleaning, and trends; you can customize information based on workstation, groups and type of threat.

[TABLE] Corporate Edition offers comprehensive protection. We launched multiple infections initiated through a variety of vectors using commonly encountered spyware and malware, including keyloggers, rootkits, Trojans, backdoors, worms, hijackers and adware.

Behavioral analysis is off by default to improve speed. Without this feature, Webroot failed to detect approximately 20 percent of the threats, especially polymorphic spyware, adware and rootkits. Once it was enabled, detection rose to nearly 100 percent.

[TABLE]Webroot AntiSpyware Corporate Edition with AntiVirus is a comprehensive antimalware defense.