The company I work for sells Webroot SecureAnywhere subscrptions to many of our business clients, as well as some residential clients.
We've had numerous situations arise since December 2018 where at least five Windows 10 computers were freezing up/locking (specifically Windows Explorer) after logging into Windows rendering the computers useless and then another few at various clients did the same thing and all of them happened to have Webroot installed. Also, some of them indicated that the service may have been expired as well.
What will happen is when you login to the account, it takes a long time to login and when finally login, the mouse cursor becomes an hourglass circle and you can't open any applications, nothing. Eventually, a popup windows shows Microsoft Windows is not responding. Windows Explorer basically freezes up.
Also, I wanted to disabled Webroot on one computer because some websites were not working properly and wanted to disable, I figured out a method to disable by deleting the folder/registry keys in recovery environment. Then after I was done and tried reinstalling Webroot, then Windows Explorer froze up again after logging in.
We have never had these issues occur with computers that did not have Webroot installed.
My ultimate fix for these was to do a System restore and remove the registry keys/folders and then reinstall Webroot and everything would be fine again, Windows Explorer working.
Now, we are having an issue where we have created a new client in the SecureEverywhere portal, configure it and everything goes fine. I installed Webroot from the resources on a Windows 10 1809 laptop and it says it installed okay, but it is saying the license is expired and will not register to the portal and then eventually, Windows explorer locks up again. We tried changing the poll to 15 minutes without success.
Has anyone else experienced this issue before and is there a fix or workaround for it? Maybe is a Windows update/Webroot clashing?
I'm stumped.
Thanks in advance.
Jay
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