Webroot Metrics Compared to Competitors

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So I was boasting to a coworker here at McAfee about how much I love my Webroot Endpoint, and we both agreed that we would never use McAfee AV personally. That being said, he brought up a point that Webroot is able to say they are so good because they cant' be compared to the same metrics as the competitors, basically removing them from that running and making them able to stand alone on their own numbers.

That being said, is there anything I can show him to prove otherwise? Also, the issue of how Webroot handles Cryptolocker came up, and I remember how when that first came out Webroot was one of the first to have a way to deal with it.

Any help from @Nic or @Richard would be great!

Thanks,
A.J.

Nic

You can show them this that just came out:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2470312,00.asp

It has some links to testing results that include us.

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Do you know of any studies that compare things like average scan times, etc? His big thing was that there was nothing to compare Webroot against...

Nic

Here you go:
https://community.webroot.com/t5/Community-Announcements/Webroot-SecureAnywhere-Tops-PassMark-Bench-Test-s-once-again/m-p/156865

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@Nic said:

Here you go:
https://community.webroot.com/t5/Community-Announcements/Webroot-SecureAnywhere-Tops-PassMark-Bench-Test-s-once-again/m-p/156865

Thanks. That's a good one.

A Former User

This is asking to be shown the door at Mcafee.

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@thecreativeone91 said:

This is asking to be shown the door at Mcafee.

Why? For a discussion with a co-worker?

A Former User

@ajstringham said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

This is asking to be shown the door at Mcafee.

Why? For a discussion with a co-worker?

If you don't get why this is a bad idea, you might need training in Office politics 101......

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@thecreativeone91 said:

@ajstringham said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

This is asking to be shown the door at Mcafee.

Why? For a discussion with a co-worker?

If you don't get why this is a bad idea, you might need training in Office politics 101......

First, I don't support their AV. Second, I don't have to pretend to like their products to support them, at least not with coworkers.

scottalanmiller

@ajstringham said:

First, I don't support their AV. Second, I don't have to pretend to like their products to support them, at least not with coworkers.

And third... that's not the point he was making You are missing the point.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said:

And third... that's not the point he was making You are missing the point.

Again.

nadnerB

@ajstringham said:

First, I don't support their AV. Second, I don't have to pretend to like their products to support them, at least not with coworkers.

You work for them, no?
What is said offline, should stay offline.

Job security pro tip: Never bag/disrespect your employer or their products online. The Internet NEVER forgets.

scottalanmiller

@nadnerB said:

Job security pro tip: Never bag/disrespect your employer or their products online. The Internet NEVER forgets.

Because it impacts not just that employer but future ones too who see that there is a high risk of you publicly being unsupportive of them while you work there and when you leave.

Let's say Microsoft wants to hire you. They do a search and realize that you have a history of talking poorly about your current employers or their products or just supporting competitor's products while doing so. And talking about them after you are no longer employed. Why would they take a risk on you? It's a high risk for them, employees talking bad about products is far worse than random Internet people.