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freydrew Community and Advocacy Manager

Hacker Files

Hacker Files

A mini podcast series In this special, Webroot podcast series we offer a behind-the-scenes look at the shadowy world of cybercrime from those battling it on the frontlines. Featuring ChannelE2E co-founder and host Joe Panettieri, alongside guest experts from around the industry, discussions delve in...

freydrew Community and Advocacy Manager

News Nearly Half of UK SMBs Believe a Cyberattack Could Close Their Business

44% of decision makers are spending a day each week dealing with cybersecurity issues 64% say workload demands result in mistakes that put the organization at risk 48% deprioritize activities that would grow business to address cybersecurity tasks 46% say a cyberattack it would put them at risk of c...

Jasper_The_Rasper Moderator

Acronis Worth Over $1 Billion After Raising $147 Million

By Eduard Kovacs on September 18, 2019 Acronis on Wednesday announced that it raised $147 million. With this funding round, led by Goldman Sachs, Acronis becomes a unicorn company with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. Acronis, which previously only raised $11 million, says it will use the newly o...

Jasper_The_Rasper Moderator

GitHub Becomes CVE Numbering Authority, Acquires Semmle

September 18, 2019 By Dark Reading Staff Latest moves will make it much more likely that vulnerabilities in open source projects will be found and reported, GitHub says. GitHub, the popular code repository, is becoming a CVE Numbering Authority and acquiring Semmle, a code-analysis engine that wil...

Sydney New Member

vpn

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how and where can I get the Webroot vpn

ProTruckDriver Moderator

How to Selectively Install Updates from MacOS Software Update

How to Selectively Install Updates from MacOS Software Update Sometimes when you check for available macOS software updates in System Preferences you’ll find there are multiple software updates available for different things, for example there might be a Safari update, alongside a macOS supplement...

golfblogger

WRSA.EXE Is paralyzing my startup. What to do?

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My computer takes 20+ minutes to start up. I had my son, who is a professional computer tech look at it. He says that WRSA.EXE is consuming 100% of CPU and Disk at startup for up to 20 minutes. He thinks I should just delete Webroot and get another antivirus. I'm willling to give it another chance ....

jallan32 New Member

how do i transfer a lastpass premium account to webroot

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I have a LastPass Premium account purchased directly from their company which is up for renewal in October. In May (2019) I purchased Total Tech Support from Best Buy and subsequently found out that LastPass Premium is supposed to be included in Total Tech Support. Since I have cancelled the autom...

Jasper_The_Rasper Moderator

MITRE Releases 2019 List of Top 25 Software Weaknesses

September 17, 2019 By Kelly Sheridan The list includes the most frequent and critical weaknesses that can lead to serious software vulnerabilities. MITRE today published a draft of the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors, a list of the most widespread and critic...

TripleHelix Moderator

Who uses Bitlocker?

I think this would be a great discussion to see how many actually use BitLocker? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLocker https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/information-protection/bitlocker/bitlocker-overview At this time I have never used it and I don't know if I want to as I heard...

Jasper_The_Rasper Moderator

'Screaming car wreck' of internet routing needs a fire brigade: Geoff Huston

After 30 years, this 'massively distributed system that relies on the propagation of rumours' seems unfixable, says APNIC's chief scientist, but digital signatures are starting to help. September 13, 2019 By Stilgherrian Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the system used to route traffic around the i...

mlcoleman

Permanently erase a file not available for Macs?

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I purchased Webroot Secure Anywhere for my mac from Best Buy. I cannot seem to find the feature to permanently erase a file. On the PC version it was as simple as a right-click on any file and a drop-down menu showed the option to permanently delete the file. Is this feature not supported on the...

lepfe2

Firefox update V. 57 disabled Webroot Filtering Extension (& other things that did not meet their new standard)

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Received notice from Firefox that they were disabling all Add-ons that don't meet "current Firefox standards", & those items are now missing. They include a very important one: Webroot Filtering Extension, which also means I don't get the green checkmarks on Bing & Google search engines, for safe...

ProTruckDriver Moderator

MacOS Catalina to be Released in October

MacOS Catalina to be Released in OctoberSep 11, 2019 - For those who have been wondering when macOS Catalina will be coming out, Apple has announced that MacOS Catalina will be released in October. While there is not yet a precise date known for release, October is a bit more specific than the g...

Jasper_The_Rasper Moderator

Wikimedia Gets $2.5 Million in Funding to Secure Wikipedia

By Ionut Arghire on September 12, 2019 The Wikimedia Foundation this week announced that it has received $2.5 million in funding from Craig Newmark Philanthropies. The announcement comes days after Wikipedia went down in some countries as a result of a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS)...

solizg916 New Member

Installing Webroot on Windows 10 Laptop w/ Snapdragon 850 ARM CPU

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I tried to install Webroot Secure Anywhere on a laptop and was unable to due to the CPU being a Snapdragon 850 with 64-bit ARM architecture. I want to avoid emulators like the plague. Is there a version of WSA available now or being developed that will run native on this super-power efficient but...

Jasper_The_Rasper Moderator

NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million

September 11, 2019 By Brian Krebs MyPayrollHR, a now defunct cloud-based payroll processing firm based in upstate New York, abruptly ceased operations this past week after stiffing employees at thousands of companies. The ongoing debacle, which allegedly involves malfeasance on the part of the payr...

Karen Rae New Member

Logging into Webroot

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Why is it that I can't log into My Account Web Root from the Icon on my toolbar? It will not accept my password. The only method I can use to sign in is by sifting through my Webroot auto generated emails to find the "click on the Webroot confirmation link to activate my account" and if it were true...

jelliottf

Wireless printer not working when connected to VPN

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Is there a way to set up the Webroot VPN that allows printing to my wireless printer? At this point, in order to print I need to disconnect the VPN. I would prefer to have a seamless way to print while remaining connected. Do you know if this is possible? I previously tried ExpressVPN and they h...

Jasper_The_Rasper Moderator

Firefox 69 Released with Enhanced Tracking Protection and Flash Disabled

September 3, 2019 By Lawrence Abrams Mozilla has officially released Firefox 69 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version comes with enhanced tracking protection enabled by default, Flash disabled by default, ability to block autoplay videos without sound, and numerous performance and UI improvem...

walgut

.seto file extension

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Hello, Today I found some files have changed his extension to .jpg.seto docx. seto pdf.seto. I want to know if WEBROOT can stop theses virus or malaware and recover the changed files or how can be the problem solved, Thanks in advance Walgut

Rebel443 New Member

Webroot "manipulates data input from USB connected Barcode scanner"

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Which isn't very helpful when scanning inventory. Has anyone experienced this behavior...?

dabbwom

Adware Protection

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I was quite disappointed to see that I needed yet another anti-virus program to remove "webhelper" spyware/adware. I have used Webroot for two years now and expected that it would be a virus solution. I believe that Webroot needs to address this deficiency or it is going to lose subscribers.

chadcordrey

iphone

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How do you scan your iPhone

Jasper_The_Rasper Moderator

Facebook: ‘Technical error’ let strangers into Messenger Kids chats

August 30, 2019 By Lisa Vaas We are “disturbed” to learn that thousands of children using Facebook’s Messenger Kids chat app were able to join group chats with strangers, senators told Facebook earlier this month. Oops, Facebook said. In a reply letter this week, dated Tuesday, 27 August, and add...

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