Webroot spy sweaper full#
With traditional antivirus packages, full rootkit protection, when offered, is enabled by default. Webroot says that its advanced heuristic rootkit protection can be time- and possibly resource-intensive, so Spy Sweeper 5.3 makes it an optional feature. We also found that deep scans for rootkits-those pernicious little malware packages that hide deep within the system kernel-remain optional in this release. Within the Spy Sweeper Sweep section there are three options: Full Sweep scans all the files on your computer's attached drives Quick Sweep offers a fast and light pass of your main drive system and Custom Sweep allows you to select individual drives or folders or exclude extensions. SpySweeper uses protective shields to protect your hard drive, blocking spyware and adware as it attempts to download.
For example, we like that during a scan, the color-coded tabs on the scan page mark your progress: Sweeping, Quarantine, and Summary.Īside from antivirus protection, Spy Sweeper continues to provide first-class antispyware protection and adds new antirootkit protection in SpySweeper 5.3. Spy Sweeper's interface is crisp and intuitive, the result of many hours of user-interface testing.
To tweak antispyware scans for individual files or folders, simply use the various Spy Sweeper configuration screens however, we could find no separate configuration options for the antivirus part of the product, such as protective settings to block incoming viruses from e-mail or IM, a setting found in many traditional antivirus products. The interface of Spy Sweeper 5.3 with Antivirus remains largely unchanged from that of Spy Sweeper 5. Webroot's integration of Sophos is invisible for example, there's no separate configuration page for antivirus scans, which initially started us wondering just how much antivirus protection exists within Spy Sweeper. The Spy Sweeper 5.3 with Antivirus interface remains unchanged from that of Spy Sweeper 5, with the exception of a tiny upper-right corner panel informing you whether antivirus protection has been enabled. After rebooting, we found no trace of Spy Sweeper in the Program Files directory or the system registry.
Should you decide to uninstall Spy Sweeper, Webroot includes an uninstall icon on the All Programs list. After installation, we were asked to reboot our system. We experienced no difficulties installing Spy Sweeper 5.3 with Antivirus. For the same $39, we think you're better off with a traditional antivirus product that also includes antispyware protection, such as our Editors' Choice. For now, we think Spy Sweeper 5.3 isn't ready for prime time. However, it took the longest to complete its scan, it didn't do so well at removing all traces of found spyware, and not all of Spy Sweeper's defense shields are turned on by default. As for traditional antispyware protection, Spy Sweeper 5.3 did well at shielding our machine from new spyware and detecting spyware already established. Webroot says that additional antivirus functionality will be added to later versions of Spy Sweeper, but for the moment, we're nervous about making Spy Sweeper our only antivirus protection. But the antivirus scanner included within Spy Sweeper isn't fully implemented and doesn't extend protection to common virus vectors such as e-mail or IM. And rather than build its own antivirus engine, Webroot has wisely partnered with top-rated U.K.-based Sophos Anti-Virus, which sells primarily to the enterprise market. Webroot Spy Sweeper 5.3 with Antivirus would seem like a powerful combination, given that McAfee, Norton, and Trend Micro all combine their antivirus and antispyware scans.
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