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Company Overview

Webroot Software, Inc. is a privately held company based in Boulder, Colorado, with over 275 employees and offices worldwide. Webroot creates innovative privacy, performance and protection products and services for millions of customers in 223 countries, ranging from home users to small businesses and enterprises.

Company History

Founded in 1997, Webroot provides best-of-breed anti-spyware solutions that protect personal information from online threats. Webroot and its products consistently receive top ratings and recommendations by respected third-party media and product reviewers. In May 2005 the Colorado Software & Internet Association named Webroot Colorado’s top technology company of the year. Also in May, Webroot was named one of the Red Herring 100 Private Companies of North America. Webroot’s CEO, David Moll, recently was asked to testify before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation about the damaging effects of spyware on consumers and businesses. Mr. Moll was honored by Ernst & Young in July with the Entrepreneur of the Year award in the emerging growth category.

Market Strategy

As one of the fastest growing security companies in the industry, Webroot brings its ever-advancing anti-spyware technology to consumer and enterprise customers through a variety of channels around the globe. Spy Sweeper™ is a three-time PC Magazine Editors’ Choice winner.  It is the number one selling anti-spyware product on retail shelves, and has an installed base of more than six million consumers worldwide. Spy Sweeper™ has won dozens of awards globally and can be found online at Webroot and at leading retailers, such as PC Security News, worldwide.

The ability of an anti-spyware vendor to identify new spyware and build definitions to block or remove spyware from user machines is fundamental to the effectiveness of their solutions. Webroot’s spyware definition database exceeds 100,000 unique traces of spyware. Webroot is committed to being the leader in online threat research and mitigation. Webroot recently introduced the security industry's first automated spyware research system designed specifically to discover and identify spyware anywhere on the worldwide web. The Web crawler system, called Phileas, is capable of intelligently scanning thousands of sites per second to identify and report new threats. Phileas is named after the character Phileas Fogg from the Jules Verne classic, "Around the World in Eighty Days." Like its namesake, the Webroot automated spyware research system covers a lot of ground quickly.

Phileas

With Phileas, Webroot defined the next phase in spyware research. By automating this process, Webroot is able to find spyware as soon as it is released and protect customers from spyware before it ever has a chance to attack. Webroot designed Phileas on the assumption that an effective anti-spyware vendor must have a fast and accurate solution for identifying newly released spyware and building protection for customers. Phileas is just one example of the commitment Webroot has made to its customers to provide the best possible protection online.

PC Security News carries the full-line of Webroot products, including Spy Sweeper™, Window Washer®, Pop-Up Washer™, Spam Shredder™ and Webroot Desktop Firewall™.

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