Does anyone know if "Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete - 2012" security suite software is recommended for an iPad2??

Because of the apps are sandboxed, there is nothing that this kind of program is going to do for you.

Unless it's in the app store, it won't run on the iPad. And, last I knew, there were no known viruses or malware issues with the iPad.

Unless you jailbreak your iPad, you can only install programs via the App store. and supposedly Apple tests every submitted app to make sure it's not 'bad' (as in malicious), so there's no way to get a virus on there.

Also, the iPad has a totally different operating system than PC's or Mac's, so any viruses written for them simply won't work on the iPad.

Hi Maria,

This is Greg from Webroot Support.

Webroot does offer protection for the iPad. The iPad software is included with the SecureAnywhere Complete package and covers 3 PC's and up to 3 devices, which can be either iOS or Android or a combination. The software for iOS includes the following features:

• Upgraded browsing and protection for your iPod®, iPhone®, or iPad®
• Secures your online transactions and financial information for safer shopping and banking
• Safe search identifies malicious websites or phishing sites before you visit them
• Tabbed browsing feature simplifies multitasking and navigation online
• Automatically syncs with Webroot's advanced URL reputation database for real-time protection

Let me know if you have any other questions and I would be happy to help.

Thanks,

Greg

Greg Davis

Webroot Support Team

It sounds like you're offering a "secure" browser seperate from the Safari browser? Otherwise, there is no way your software could offer any safety to any other aspect of the iPad. You can't add any security settings to Safari, to Mail, or to any other application on the iPad. While your listing for the Webroot Secure Browser in the App Store makes that clear, I don't think your statement above does.

Hi PogoPossum,

You are correct. Apple sandboxing makes it impossible for anything whatsoever to manipulate the Mail, Safari, or even anything related to other apps. So yes, we do provide a separate Secure Browser. From a technical standpoint, Apple requires the use of the internal iOS rendering engine, otherwise advanced web features like JavaScript would not operate. We are able to wrap the rendering engine in a tabbed system that performs out-of-band checks on web content prior to passing it to the rendering engine for display.

A person accidentally visiting a bank-phishing site on Safari on the iPad would have little to no way of knowing it was a fraudulent site. From the Webroot browsing app, the reputation system checks the search results and pending location prior to rendering the page and will block the visit to the page before it occurs.

Hope this information helps.

Greg

Greg Davis

Webroot Support Team

It's somewhat useful if you don't have a PC also, but in my case, I have a PC as well, so honestly I really like it. It took a little while for the extra features to come out, but...

I use the browser thingy to make sure my searches are not pulling up fake sites, and it has built-in password memory. All my passwords that I have on my home computer I can get put into the same sites on my iPad, and I don't have to type them in, so the "shoulder-surfers" can never try to catch me typing in my password by watching or grabbing video. (I still can't believe I got my Apple login password stolen by a security guard watching me on camera at a mall!) If I fat-finger the site name and the site it would go to is a fake, I don't get caught by it. And since I use it on my PC too, it's good for just the PC alone even, but on the iPad makes it even better.

I think if you don't have a PC also, the cost just for an iPad might not be worth it to everybody. That's about the only thing I see being annoying though. Of course, if you don't have a PC, and don't care about the password storing, you can get the app for free and not upgrade it internally to Complete mode, so you still get the browser stuff just without password or sync.