When that's done, you click the Finish button and you're in the main window. Or rather, you would be, if it weren't for the mandatory initial scan that took more than 25 minutes on our MacBook Pro. The second that Webroot SecureAnywhere Internet Security Plus installs, you are off to the races. More troubling is that our MacBook turned in the slowest OpenOffice time when SecureAnywhere did nothing but watch for malware in the background. The closest competing score was by Kaspersky, which took 4:03 to finish the OpenOffice test while a full scan was processing.ĭuring quick scans, Webroot SecureAnywhere took a slower-than-average 4:23 (lagging behind the average time of 4:15).
At 4 minutes and 2 seconds, it was 16 seconds faster than the category average, and only 21 seconds longer than when the test ran without any AV software installed. On our custom OpenOffice performance test, which involves matching 20,000 names and addresses, SecurityAnywhere got the best score of all Mac AV software recently reviewed during a full-system scan.
