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Urs Schuerch - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Engineer at Ingenias AG

I have experience with Trend Micro.

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MK
IT Consultant at ITGenie

We switched to Webroot Business Endpoint Protection from SentinelOne due to its price. Its cost is much higher. The other factor was the updates. We had to be careful to get all the updates on the system and see how many threats it detected.

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OW
President at National Payroll

I used to use Symantec Endpoint Protection. I would have preferred to continue using Symantec Endpoint Protection, but last year, I don't know what happened to their infrastructure but they completely destroyed themselves. I couldn't contact them for a month and I couldn't renew my Symantec subscription, so I went with Webroot. Otherwise, I'd probably still be on Symantec.

Symantec was being bought out by Broadcom. My licenses were due at exactly the very timeframe they were being bought out. I called every Symantec phone number I could find, every broadband phone number I could find, every Symantec retailer I could find. Nobody could get a Symantec license. I could not renew my Symantec licenses. As such, I checked out some recommended solutions and chose Webroot. I'd probably still be on Symantec because Symantec always did a good job for me although Symantec was much more expensive.

I think I did a comparison back when I switched and it looked like they did about the same things. I'm sure there are more features that I could implement, but I've implemented on as many as I'm aware of. I haven't explored everything yet.

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Webroot Business Endpoint Protection
March 2024
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AE
Chief Information Officer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Kaspersky, Malwarebytes, Symantec, McAfee, Panda, and ESOT. They are all a much heavier load on the systems and do not seem to catch as much.

Webroot also has a much easier global management than some, with a cloud-based console, rather than a local server as the management server. That means it does not matter where the endpoints are located.

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NV
Manager-IT at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

We have previously used many other solutions, such as Mcafee and Norton. Many of them were pretty heavy on resources and users are complaining about slowness on the systems. This is why we had to move to another solution, which is a combination of Kaspersky and Webroot. 

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it_user1011267 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Consultant at Jeneri IT

Before choosing this solution, we were on BitDefender.

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LM
Sr Project Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We've previously used Avast, McAfee, and a couple of other solutions and they all caused problems. When we moved over to Webroot a lot of those issues went away.

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it_user762807 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We were using a couple of different solutions. However, as our company grew quickly, the program became harder to expand to our needs the way we wanted. The price would have been more than what we wanted to spend.

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it_user762459 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Previously, we used a mix of Trend/Sophos/Symantec. Webroot has all their best bits in combined into one solution.

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it_user807315 - PeerSpot reviewer
Digital Janitor, programmer, engineer with 1-10 employees

I used the Kaspersky equivalent, but the footprint for Webroot is smaller, the console is more intuitive and, unfortunately, Kaspersky has been smeared by Russian/American politics.

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TS
Network Manager, Enterprise at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We used Trend Micro many years ago, and then it wasn't doing great. We looked around and found another company that I think is out of business now. Next, we transitioned to Viper, and from there, we moved to Webroot. Now we're beginning to move to Sentinel One, as the keys keep moving, and we can try and move with it finding the best solutions for our clients.

The hardest thing about going to Webroot was that you didn't really have any way to really have any third party that was actually testing these antivirus products to understand whether it was false positive or whether it did great. You didn't really have that much, and not many of them actually tested Webroot because it didn't really fall into the same category as all the other products that were out at the time. 

Sentinel One is truly looking at not just every process but exactly what it's doing and what it's touching. Truly not just journaling, but whatever it does, it's keeping track of all the changes, and they can actually roll them back.

We actually just had three incidents that we have seen since we started using Sentinel One. This one happened three or four days ago, and it was a false positive. But Sentinel wants to sense the way the package was designed. It had every appearance of being malicious because the way it was acting was like a malicious function.

That's the only false positive we've seen so far, and if it was a weird one too. Whoever sent it never should have sent something in that type of package. Before that, we had to locked-down the machine.

That's what Sentinel One will do when there are attacks, ransomware, or some malicious activity that can be detrimental to the data and the network. It literally locks that machine down, and users can't access anything on the network. The computer can't access anything on the network except for the Sentinel One dashboard.

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it_user772752 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager / System Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We have used multiple, but the last we switched from was AVG/McAfee.

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RE
Administrator at zuuTech

We did not previously use any centralized endpoint protection before starting to use this product. This was the first time. Before that, we normally recommended to our clients that they use antivirus solutions that are free for mobile devices. But, we did not have a centralized management console like a Webroot or the additional advantages.  

We are currently using Webroot for both computers and mobiles but we are looking for another solution for mobile endpoint protection because Webroot will no longer offer mobile endpoint protection as of March. They are ending this department or this product. So this is why we are looking for an alternative solution for mobile endpoint protection. It has to be a similar mobile endpoint protection solution because as a reseller we want to have a centralized admin management console to have true endpoint protection for our clients' mobiles, tablets, Android or iOS.  

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KG
Managing Director at ITS Technology Solution Pvt. Ltd.

We have used other antivirus solutions in the past before using Webroot Business Endpoint Protection.

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it_user762519 - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Engineer at a tech services company

Trend: We switched because the system was resource hungry.

Symantec: We switched because they tried to stab us in the back and contacted our customers directly.

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JR
Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I don't recall using a different solution. We chose an extensive version of Webroot, however, we've been evaluating another solution these past few months to get better protection.

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it_user762615 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT manager at a pharma/biotech company with 201-500 employees

Vipre, we switched because it was too slow.

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Buyer's Guide
Webroot Business Endpoint Protection
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Webroot Business Endpoint Protection. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
767,847 professionals have used our research since 2012.