Web Threat Shield

Keeps you safe when browsing the web by identifying and blocking dangerous websites.

Total ratings for Web Threat Shield

2.46 (Rating count: 318)

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

helped me stay away from unsafe websites
easy and soft
works fine, doesn't cause any problems for me

Cons

impossible to get rid of
blocks needed push notifications
collects sensitive data without consent
not transparent about what it does with data
not detecting malware
useless piece of trash

Most mentioned

impossible to get rid of
blocks websites
collects sensitive data without consent
not transparent about what it does with data

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Recent 25 reviews for Web Threat Shield

Recent rating average: 1.80

All time rating average: 2.46

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Timestamp	Author	Comment
2023-05-09	kelly peña	I cannot uninstall it, my uncle installed it because he thought it would be good but it pops up when im trying to work, it opens as a new window and interrupts me.
2023-01-26	Johnston & Associates	I don't know how this got installed on my computer but it now blocks me from doing things that I need to do. Add to that, I asked that someone contact me this morning and here I sit, 8 hours later with no contact. I can't find a phone number to call them except for the number for payment support. Imagine that!
2022-11-08	Cody Konno	SPAM! PHISHING! VIRUS! DO NOT DOWNLOAD! This extension automatically added itself to my Chrome browser and it won't remove from my extension. The extension collects sensitive data (passwords, personal/identifiying information) without your consent and is not transparent about what it does with YOUR info. DO NOT DOWNLOAD!
2022-09-27	Nate Cregier	Can't uninstall it, don't know how it got installed in the first place
2022-08-15	Debbi House	The webroot green checkmarks are missing on chrome since my latest computer update, even though the extension is still activated.. Please fix this - I love the checkmarks!
2022-08-12	Victor Nasser	after update to the extension or chromium engine (broken in brave and chrome browsers), this extension is less than useful.
2022-08-09	Z-0N	Used this extension for a very long time to detect what sites would be potentially malicious and helped me stay safe. now it seems that whatever update they made to it completely broke it and its no longer functional, pretty disappointing. Choosing to use malwarebytes instead now.
2022-07-16	Josh Reed	Nope. It's like giardia, a parasite that lives in you forever. Never getting rid of it. Ever. Good luck with the digital runs with this extension.
2022-04-25	Gerald O'Dea	It messed up my computer. I do not recommend this Google chrome extension from webroot/opentext
2022-03-16	Attack Helicopter	LET ME TAKE IT OFF MY PC YOU IT BASTARDS jk love you guys
2022-03-03	Theodore Rickers Jr	useless junk. stay away from.. very hard to uninstall or get it off computer.. super shady
2021-11-16	1993 MAZDA MIATA	love it but can you put back the old icons
2021-11-04	Brúnó Kertész	Blocks needed push notifications and slows down localhost developments, would not recommend
2021-08-04	Ali Toygar Haykır	Yıllar önce kurduğum bu uzantıyı yıllardır kaldıramıyorum. Çok mutsuz ediyor. Webroot yeterli desteği vermiyor.
2021-05-22	Elías Calderón	Awful. Installed itself and declares websites malicious at random. It's basically useless piece of trash.
2021-05-21	Hawkwar2007 3	PLEASE GO AWAY WHY WONT YOU GO AWAY
2021-05-20	K D	It blocks Google translations of Japanese Twitter pages. Nice job guys.
2021-05-17	Ashley McKnight	had to manually remove malware because this app was not detecting any of it. pretty useless.
2021-03-21	Jan Filipiak	I don't trust any Chrome extension that won't let me uninstall it!
2021-03-21	Kate Myers	I really liked this extension because it helped me stay away from unsafe websites. However, recently it has stopped working and only shows spinning circles instead of green checkmarks/red xs or nothing at all. I don't know why it isn't showing these anymore, and no one seems to know why when I ask.
2021-02-19	Dan MCCLUNG	I have a site that is not even e-commerce and suddenly I am getting the yellow caution which is causing me to get fewer hits.
2021-01-26	Jaqueline Arriaga	I say its great :) i may think it only works for pepole who have weebroot antivirus and to erase click on related/scroll all way down and click remove from chrome!
2021-01-25	UDM AGENCY	Best Antivirus easy and soft.its don't slow my pc.
2021-01-12	Emily Quealy	It works I guess. I have paid for actual Webroot security so it works fine. I was able to remove it (this is my personal laptop) just fine without any issues. I'm not sure why it is such a problem for others. It has never blocked me from a website although I don't often go to sketchy websites. It tends to mark websites as yellow for Caution quite often. It marked the Capitol One site and some Scholarship sites with the yellow. It shows green on many anime streaming websites which I would usually assume to be sketchy. I'm not sure if it actually works. Some of my college websites are even marked with a yellow.
2020-12-19	Milton Gonzalez	Unable to remove or delete this extension. I have reported this as abuse multiple times. If I don't want it I don't have to have it on my browser.