Everon’s partner, ITSupport247, is now using a new antivirus provider called Webroot Secure Anywhere. Webroot is based out of Colorado, in fact, Webroot is so close to our call center that we can see their building from where we sit (maybe they will let us take a tour someday!). Before the switch, Everon had been reviewing various antivirus software. After extensive research, and ultimately choosing Webroot Secure Anywhere as our official antivirus, we couldn’t be happier!
The management for most antiviruses for businesses take place in a centrally managed console on a server or workstation within the network, and all machines must report to that location. The centrally managed console is then the sole connection to the outside world where it will look for definition updates to the antivirus company’s servers. In most cases, if you are not constantly reviewing the console, ensuring it is up to date and pulling the definitions over on a daily basis, you could have issues. Most consoles work decent enough to allow their agents to pull definition updates from the Internet themselves in the event that the console is unavailable, however, you still have many variables that can go wrong. Did you update your notifications properly? Do you back up the local database that manages the console?
After rebuilding a few consoles from scratch due to database failures, I realized that if an antivirus builds their console into the cloud, that would make my life so much easier, and that is exactly what Webroot does. Webroot built the centrally managed consoles right in their collocation facilities, thus taking away a potentially huge point of failure for businesses.
Webroot allows setup within minutes, as you first determine how many seats you need. This is directly proportionate to how many machines you want to be protected with the antivirus. Once you determine that, you create custom groups for your company (you don’t want the same rules to apply for your servers as you do your desktops), and then you are ready to push the product out. Webroot gives you an easy to install link that you can simply run with no login required. It is built custom to your site, and will link the machine back to your site, with all of your rules intact. Notifications are easy as well. You don’t need to set up a custom SMTP server to route notification emails through, you simply choose what you want to be notified on, put in the email addresses in the appropriate locations, and you are done!
Webroot has made antivirus management easy and Everon is proud to provide it to our client base. The antivirus is even good at protecting its resources (which to be honest is probably the first thing you should be concerned with when choosing an antivirus). PCMag rated it one of the best antiviruses of 2015. One thing that is very important in the world of antiviruses is what type of imprint it makes on the machine. Some antiviruses have GBs of files used to manage itself and its definitions, or scans take multiple hours. Webroot is a very small, very light package with hardly any imprint to a machine. Its scans are quick and efficient, and reporting back into the console happens within minutes usually.
Webroot Secure Anywhere is a great antivirus! Give our engineers a call at 1-888-244-1748 to see if Webroot and Everon would be a good fit for your company.