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How to remove alert "Sign up for My Account"


Now, after I’ve Signed Up and created a new account on Carbonite+Webroot, because this is where the "Get Started" button led to, the alert keeps appearing down to the right corner of the screen, non stop.  This is the text of the alert

Webroot "Sign up for My Account Manage Subscriptions, access support and more by creating a My Account profile."

 

How do I stop this alert?

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Best answer by TripleHelix 9 May 2022, 17:46

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@Squirrel 

I looked at support tickets from your email and I don’t see any submissions since 2018. If you used a different email please DM it so I can find out where that ticket is and get support on it for you!

I also did NOT respond to the notice to create a “new” console account (I have had my 5 devices set up in Webroot for 5 years) … and when I tried to get support and/or create a ticket, I was also ignored/rejected without explanation.

Did I never need support or a ticket during that 5 years?  I was not at all aware that you needed a “different” password (but the same userid/email?) to get support or a ticket … and it was not at all clear that any such thing was needed when I tried to get the support/ticket … it just ignored me.  Was I supposed to read your mind?  And as user Cacoss noted, there was no way indicated in “support” about adding yet another login to the account.  I still have not gotten any support nor response as it is a holiday weekend … so even if you accept a telephone call on Tuesday, that means I have been left out to dry all weekend.

To be truthful, I find it hard to believe that a business does not provide some way to at least contact support (letting you reply to those insane messages is one way) to figure out what is required. I was blocked in every attempt to get help on what was going on.

We are really wondering about retaining Webroot with all this weirdness going on. 

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Hello everyone, yes some are still getting the message and Webroot’s Development team is working on it and that’s all I know! I even get it once in awhile.

 

 

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Yep its back again and still the credential eff up when I try to create a support ticket from my logged in Webroot page.  I know my credentials but cannot even get  a “lost password” email - it says sent but I never receive it.

STOP THIS DAMN POPUP PERMANENTLY!  Or I’m outta here.

Still getting this message months later; finally decided to Google it, and… well,  here I am 

So after two support tickets and two generic responses explaining what the new MyAccount is, and feel free to ignore the popup (which won’t go away if you ignore it), this is still going on. Has been escalated, support says. Any updates on when this issue will go away? Sheesh, imagine if every app on the computer did this on start-up… 🤣

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As an ex-Prevx user and more than 10-year Webroot user, I love your AV but I hate these popups. Grrr😠!!

I also am not a fan of the persistent popups and I can assure everyone here that what happened with the in-product-messaging campaign was NOT supposed to happen. It was supposed to just be quick FYI message making you aware of features that some might not be aware of with the account. However, what happened was an error from our back end implementation and and the persistence of the popups was through the roof and has upset everyone. Going forward the message that’s displayed will only show up once and not persist after it is closed. I am unaware of the other messages that have been planned to be displayed, but if there are going to be anymore then they will be implemented correctly next time where it will go away after one click. I will also make a post  on the community here letting everyone know beforehand. I was also caught off guard by this message as well. 

The persistent popups was not intended and it was only supposed to be one popup that you could close. I understand the frustration when these things don’t work correctly, but it has been remedied and there will be no more popups that persist. 

Thanks, Tyler, for your swift response!

I followed your advice to reboot a week or so ago, but the popup persisted each time I turned on the computer in the morning and logged on. Then it stopped for a couple of days and then it came back. This morning, it seems to have stopped again (temporarily?). So it has still been continuing to pop up on my computer. Are you saying it will eventually go away?

And what of Support’s response (very recent: only 3 days ago): “These banner messages are being provided for all customers and will rotate and change throughout the year ?  Should I ignore this as being just incorrect information?

As an ex-Prevx user and more than 10-year Webroot user, I love your AV but I hate these popups. Grrr😠!!

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@TylerM-clicking the link you provided above I get this:

There is no option to create a new account from this page.  When I put in my email and click continue, I get the screen I already showed you above.  So now, even though the main log in page states that if you already have and existing account with Webroot I can log in and manage my dash board but I can’t submit a ticket through the old portal? I will have to create a new account with the NEW Account Portal in order to submit a ticket to get rid of the create an account nuance pop up.  (yes I did just chase my tail right in a circle)  Or am I missing something altogether different?

This is the ticketing website. It is entirely different than old Webroot or new joined Carbonite+Webroot accounts. If your email is asking for a password, its because you have created a ticket before and is asking for the password to the support ticket website. If you do not remember the password, the I suggest that you reset the password and then go from there. As always your subscription includes help over the phone so if you need assistance please give us a call  

https://www.webroot.com/us/en/support/contact

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@Muddy7 

 

The persistent popups was not intended and it was only supposed to be one popup that you could close. I understand the frustration when these things don’t work correctly, but it has been remedied and there will be no more popups that persist. 

Got about 50 some days left before my renewal is due. Guess it’s time to research more user friendly companies.

@TylerM. A week ago I contacted Webroot Support about this rash of pop-ups and 2 days ago, that is, all of 5 days after I submitted my Support post(?!?!?!), they actually got round to replying. Here was part of their response:
“These banner messages are being provided for all customers and will rotate and change throughout the year.“

Great! So this pop-up message is the first of an epidemic of pop-ups that Carbonite and Webroot have decided they are going to subject us to. This is what we get for the privilege of being paying customers.

I thought this problem had been resolved years ago when many of us complained vociferously about it, and Webroot told us they had learned their lesson. Well, here we go again 🙄.

 

@TylerM -clicking the link you provided above I get this:

There is no option to create a new account from this page.  When I put in my email and click continue, I get the screen I already showed you above.  So now, even though the main log in page states that if you already have and existing account with Webroot I can log in and manage my dash board but I can’t submit a ticket through the old portal? I will have to create a new account with the NEW Account Portal in order to submit a ticket to get rid of the create an account nuance pop up.  (yes I did just chase my tail right in a circle)  Or am I missing something altogether different?

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@AV1 Support had responded to you May 17th and it looks like you didn’t read it. We have since escalated further and they are offering to call and remote if needed. Please respond to the ticket with what you would like

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@cacoss This is the support ticketing site and uses a completely different login so be sure to make a new account for support.

 

Let me know if you have issues

@TylerM-  I have read down through this thread and I am also a long time customer, I do not have any Carbonite  products so I don’t want to sign up with the new myaccount (which doesn’t seem very successful either due to credential issues).  I did try to submit a ticket using the link you provided above but using the same user name and password that allows me to log in to my dashboard online I get nothing when I click the continue button in the screen shot below:

if I don’t have a ticket and we have already rebooted, will it potentially just stop?  Or is there something more that can be done to submit a ticket so we get notification upon remediation?  Thank you for your help!

Edit: Blocked Members Email in Screen Shot ~ PTD

 

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@MajorHavoc(I like your name) 

Thanks  the name of a video game I designed for Atari in the 80s  :-)

 

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@MajorHavoc (I like your name) - as I pointed out to @TylerM  in the “Sign up for MyAccount” thread, the popup continues to occur for me every day when I start up my PC.  With a support ticket raised a week ago with no follow-up occurring then I am not happy.  Despite all of the statements to the contrary about things having been stopped and it’s all gone away then that is not true.

What can be done to permanently kill off the popups for me? 

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@AV1 This is not something we are forcing on anyone. This product messaging was meant to be a way to make you aware that you have additional features that can be utilized. Obviously this messaging was way too much, and upon turning it off on the backend we’re still having users see this pop-up which is absolutely unintended. We’re very sorry for the inconvenience and troubles this has caused everyone and will happily escalate anyone’s ticket that is still seeing this. 

 

@patbell101 We’re very sorry for the frustrations here, it was not intended and we have turned this off on the backend so if you are still seeing it please create a ticket and we can get you in touch with support. 

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Yes I try to create an account but it tells ma an account already exists with this keycode. So I try to login with credentials that work for Webroot and I am told my credentials are invalid.

My renewal isnt far away so I think I’ll just not renew and uninstall webroot unless they sort this out.

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There are reasons why people do not want to use Carbonite for Cloud backups:

  1. slow for non-US customers
  2. system process hog
  3. Older version created thousands of 0 byte files which were supposed to be temporary but were not in reality

Please do not force this on existing Webroot customers via an annoying popup which incorrectly infers that existing account details are not valid.  However send emails asking customers if they want to opt in, and nothing else.

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This is to ALERT everyone on here! I finally got a message from support. Do you want to know what they said? They were SELLING me on the pop-up and to Activate My Account. I would not have believed it if someone else had told me this!

Instead of really being sorry for all the disturbance they’ve caused, they were more interested in selling me why the pop up set up and why I should sign up with the submit button.
 

 

@LList I understand how frustrated you are to still be getting these pop up messages. Most people have already had this resolved in other threads. Our Support has also acknowledged that your case is fringe to be still having this issue and is high priority with our product teams.

 

In reviewing the ticket and the exact messages sent to you,  I would like to clear up that Support are not selling the “my account”, it was just a suggestion to get rid of the popup. Our support has absolutely apologized for the inconvenience and disturbance for those that don’t want to create an account and are working diligently to remedy the situation for those that still have the pop-ups.

 

We would like to apologize for any inconvenience or grievances this has caused you. Webroot has received reports of this new messaging popping up regularly despite measures being put into place to stop the messaging. Your case as well as every other reported case has been brought to the attention of our Product Management and Development teams for review and further prioritization.

In March 2022, we released a new My Account portal for all Carbonite customers and new Webroot customers. The new My Account portal has been designed to allow you to be able to manage both the Carbonite and Webroot products.

According to our database, you have not yet registered for the new portal account. Please use the link below to create the new account with us.

https://myaccount.carbonite.com/createaccount/


If you do not want to set up an account on our new portal, please feel free to ignore these messages.

We're looking into this with priority and working to get this messaging removed as soon as we're able. Once this issue is resolved, we will be in contact to let you know.

 

Follow-up message...

 

The account that you can sign up for is an optional feature that we provide to our customers for account management, it is not something that has to be paid for. Additionally you are not required to set one up. As stated this is a known issue amongst our team and our teams are working diligently on resolve the issue reported. This was not an intended feature to have the message appear as often as it has. Once again we apologize for any inconvenience or grievances this has caused you.

 

I sincerely hope the messages go away ASAP and if you would like to actually speak to a person I would be happy to escalate this and have an engineer reach out to you. 

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Jedi mind trick. You will like the pop-ups. You will pay them money. You can move along. Move along. 

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This is to ALERT everyone on here! I finally got a message from support. Do you want to know what they said? They were SELLING me on the pop-up and to Activate My Account. I would not have believed it if someone else had told me this!

Instead of really being sorry for all the disturbance they’ve caused, they were more interested in selling me why the pop up set up and why I should sign up with the submit button.

And they acknowledged that for some users (like me) the pop-up is happening (even if I don’t want to sign up). They’ll get back to me on a solution (at some point).

SERIOUSLY?! That was the response?? Unbelievable. Does anyone on here have another alternative they’d like to recommend? I’m so over this Webroot and the arrogance they are displaying. 

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@Petemlewis I can’t find a ticket under your email to track this - Please DM me the email you used to submit a ticket and I’ll have it looked into. 

 

@LList I checked your ticket that you submitted this morning and see that it’s in the queue. Every time you send a new message it resets your ticket in the queue. I have escalated this and you should have a response shortly. This in product messaging has been turned off so you shouldn’t be seeing it anymore. Our support can help find a resolution for you

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