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Webroot Essentials

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Product

Entry consumer antivirus tier in Webroot's current home lineup. Webroot Essentials is the new name for Webroot SecureAnywhere products. Webroot Essentials provides comprehensive cloud-based protection from online threats for all your devices, keeping you safe no matter how or where you connect. Webroot Essentials is designed to offer a comprehensive protection package for one, three, or five devices. Supported platforms are Android, iOS, macOS and Windows.

Current Version
9.5.11.117
Product Page
webroot.com/products/essentials
Market
Consumer
Licence
Paid
Price
USD 49.99 / annual
Record Created
2026-09-19
Last Updated
2026-10-10

Vendor

Webroot's distinguishing idea was to move the work off the machine. Rather than shipping signature files to every endpoint, it kept the classification in the cloud and left a very small agent behind — which made it notably light on system resources and made its behaviour in comparative tests unlike that of conventional scanners, since much of what it does depends on a live connection. It is no longer independent. Carbonite bought Webroot in 2019, and OpenText bought Carbonite later the same year; the products are now sold as Webroot by OpenText. The consumer range is Webroot Essentials, Webroot Premium and Webroot Total Protection, with Family editions of the upper tiers, plus a Chromebook edition, an antivirus aimed at PC gamers, a PC optimizer and a VPN. Organisations buy Webroot Business Endpoint Protection and the DNS and security-awareness services beside it, sold largely through managed service providers. Vendor page →

Website
webroot.com
Country
United States
Headquarters
Broomfield, United States
Year Established
1997
Customers
300K business customers
Users
206M devices protected
Revenue
$28.2M (2025)

Platforms

Androidnative
iOSnative
macOSnative
Windowsnative

Target Market

Consumer primary

Capabilities

Malware DetectionkeyNot known
Ransomware Protectionkeynative
Behavioral DetectionkeyNot known
Web Protectionkeynative
Email ProtectionNot known
Host Firewallnative
Sandbox AnalysisNot known
Cloud-Assisted ScanningNot known
Heuristic DetectionNot known
Device ControlNot known
Vulnerability ShieldingNot known
Central Management ConsoleNot known

9 of 12 not yet known — not recorded, which is not the same as not supported.

Pricing

PlanLicencePriced perBilledPrice
SummarySubscriptionnot statedyearlyUSD 49.99

Versions

  • 9.5.11.117macOSreleased 2023-11-01
  • 9.0.46.75Windows

The newest release each source names per platform, not every release the vendor has shipped. A release date is shown only where one is recorded.

Independent Tests

At a glance — latest result per lab test

SE Labs Home Anti-Malware ProtectionAA

2026-06-30lab report ↗

Each bar is one lab’s own figure on that lab’s own scale. Labs test different models at different times, so the figures are not combined into one score.

All results

SE Labs Home Anti-Malware ProtectionHome Anti-Malware 2026 Q2
AAOverall 91Protection Accuracy: 81%Legitimate Accuracy: 97%Total Accuracy Rating: 91%
SE Labs Home Anti-Malware ProtectionHome Anti-Malware 2026 Q1
AAAOverall 95Protection Accuracy: 89%Legitimate Accuracy: 98%Total Accuracy Rating: 95%

Certifications

OESIS Framework SupportSupported1 activeSupported
OPSWAT Certified Security ApplicationPlatinum1 activePlatinum

Change History

This record was created 2026-09-19. Everything below is what has changed since.

  • 2026-10-05New versionNew version: 9.0.46.75 (Windows)evidence
  • 2026-10-01Test result addedNew SE Labs Home Anti-Malware Protection result: AAAevidence
  • 2026-10-01Test result addedNew SE Labs Home Anti-Malware Protection result: AAevidence
  • 2026-09-23Certification addedCertified: OESIS Framework Support (Supported)evidence
  • 2026-09-23Certification addedCertified: OPSWAT Certified Security Application (Platinum)evidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedHost Firewall: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedWeb Protection: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-23Capability addedRansomware Protection: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-23Platform addedRuns on iOSevidence
  • 2026-09-23Platform addedRuns on Androidevidence
  • 2026-09-22Product updatedListed in Home Antimalwareevidence
  • 2026-09-20Pricing plan addedPrice: USD 49.99 yearlyevidence
  • 2026-09-20New versionNew version: 9.0.45.66 (Windows)evidence
  • 2026-09-20New versionNew version: 9.5.11.117 (macOS)evidence
  • 2026-09-19Platform addedRuns on Windowsevidence
  • 2026-09-19Product updatedSold to: Consumerevidence
  • 2026-09-19Platform addedRuns on macOSevidence
  • 2026-09-19Product createdNew product listedevidence
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