About Phileas
Phileas is a ground-breaking online spyware research system developed by Webroot. Using patent-pending technology that scours the entire Web, Phileas discovers spyware on the Internet faster and more efficiently than any other research method. More importantly, it does so before home computer users or corporations unwittingly become infected.
Phileas scans the web, searching for new spyware threats.
Webroot designed Phileas to ensure that its award-winning anti-spyware software programs, Spy Sweeper and Webroot AntiSpyware Corporate Edition, are armed with the most updated threat information available. Backed by Phileas, anti-spyware users are assured that they have the best protection available against emerging spyware threats.
What Makes Phileas the Best Spyware Research System
- Phileas is highly scalable - keeping pace with growing spyware threats.
- With Phileas, Webroot is able to update its anti-spyware definition database with nearly 300 new definitions a week.
- It's fast - 10 days of manual research takes less than an hour for a single Phileas bot.
- Phileas identifies new threats - with CoolWebSearch, nCase, VX2, and c2 media Lop being the most commonly found exploits.
How Phileas helps you stay better protected
If there's a new threat online, Phileas finds it faster, Spy Sweeper and Webroot AntiSpyware Corporate Edition get it quicker - so end users are protected better! With Phileas at work, Spy Sweeper and Webroot AntiSpyware Corporate Edition users get the best anti-spyware programs available.
For both home computer users and corporations, the most important component of a good anti-spyware solution is the strength, accuracy and frequency of definitions updates.
Using hundreds of bots that scour the Web faster and more frequently than other research techniques, Phileas finds more spyware programs, including new variants, before they have a chance to find their way onto corporate networks or home computers.
With these threats identified, the Webroot Threat Research team builds new definition sets and sends them out several times a week - giving you better and more up-to-date protection than any other anti-spyware product.
Use Webroot's comprehensive database to see if your PC is infected with a free spyware scan.
Did you know?
- One hour of work by a single Phileas bot is the equivalent of 80 hours of manual research.
- Since its inception, Phileas has scanned more than 50 million web pages.
- 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.