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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...
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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...

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How do you keep your kids safe online?

Discussions with children about online safety often revolve around the topics of cyberbullying and avoiding online predators, but what about staying safe from cybercriminals? It's quite easy to think that hackers and nefarious actors out there are only after adults. However, kids are just as likely...

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Whitelisting process for application developers
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Hello -- I am an application owner that contains a signed executable which is falsely reported as malware (W32.Trojan.Gen) by Webroot (discovered via virustotal.exe). Doing some searching around the forums, this appears to be a fairly common situation. Is there a whitelisting process we can use...

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how do i fix this? updated java the other day. this had never happened before. system restored to prior to update but same error persists
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Task Failed on Startup error: please refer to system administrator Recommendation SummaryAn application error occurred on the portal. The portal by default prevents the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers runni...

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nat.nc

Mobile Security question/concern
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I downloaded the Webroot Secure browser onto my iOS device; when accessing my Webroot accoount online, it is not showing that I have any mobile devices added to the account. I attempt signing in onto my Webroot Secure Web browser Password Management on my iOS device, and the correct login informatio...

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blocking former antivirus
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I tried total av and they turned out to be scammers. I don't trust them since they started charging me for things I didn't sign up for. I was suppose to be a free deal. I just wanted to see if I liked them. Now I am worried they may try and get back into my pc without my permission. i did...

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aholgate

Full path where infection was found not displaying?

Hello, I have been chasing an infection and I am getting infection paths such as %appdata%\... "?.\"... %winroot%... etc. Is there a setting that needs to changed to provide this level of detail because it's frustrating that I have to chase a file path when it's not properly (at least I don't see...

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Blog Cyber News Rundown: Photography Site Breached

Cyber News Rundown: Photography Site Breached

Popular Photography Site Breached A major photography site, 500px, recently discovered they had suffered a data breach in July of last year. Data ranging from name and email addresses, to birthdates and user locations, were comprised. While the company did confirm no customer payment data is stored...

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mrtymrr

HDMI connection
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What I am trying to do is use my desktop HDMI connection to an AV receiver with similar connect. My question is do I have to disconnect my computer speakers for the HDMI connect (audio only) to be transferred to my AV receiver

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dlbny New Member

Any Firefox 65.0.1 (64 bit) users around?
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While logging into my Chase banking account, There was a request to update the version of the Firefox browser I was using since Chase was dropping support for my old version. I went through the update process and ended up with version 65.0.1 (64 bit). Browser wise,everything seemed to work until I w...

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Amazon cancels plans to build New York headquarters

Updated 12:26 PM ET, Thu February 14, 2019 New York (CNN Business)Amazon is ditching its plans to build a new headquarters in New York after facing backlash from members of the community. "After much thought and deliberation, we've decided not to move forward with our plans to build a headquarters...

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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18836 Skip Ahead

February 14, 2019 10:03 am By Dona Sarkar and Brandon LeBlanc Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing a new build to Insiders who have opted into Skip Ahead. These builds are from the 20H1 development branch. Some things we are working on in 20H1 require a longer lead time. We will begin rel...

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Threat removal history
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How can I view what threat was removed, and when?

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Blog Passphrase Token Attacks

Passphrase Token Attacks

Webroot Senior Security Analyst and community member, @RAbrams posted a followup piece to his successful and engaging post on password constraints. There were a lot of questions and comments so we felt it was time to post a followup. Looking forward to jumping into the comments with you and Randy!...

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Max Subotai - 8509

VPNs
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I'm not too familiar with VPNs, nor much else in the IT community. I registered with this community at the suggestion of a friend who is familiar with the IT world. I asked about various VPNs because I had a bad service and software experience with Nord VPN. I am a home user operating a recentl...

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2012camaro

Better?

How is Webroot better than AVG or McAfee?

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iqdial New Member

site alerts
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I keep getting alert for AOL site. Is this a real threat?

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davidh55 New Member

idit devices wifi wont let me sign in
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i downloaded webroot wifi after having computo worked on and it says i need to sign out of one of my devices i dont have but two

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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18334 Fast Ring

February 8, 2019 10:02 am By Dona Sarkar and Brandon LeBlanc Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18334 (19H1) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. REMINDER: As is normal with builds early in the development cycle, builds may contain bugs that might be pa...

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Blog Here's My Social Security Number

Here's My Social Security Number

Senior Security Analyst, @RAbrams explores the likelihood of cybercriminals already having access to your Social Security Number and offers ways you can protect yourself in the data breach-heavy times we live. Check it out on the Webroot Blog and let me know what you think in the comments below! M...

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RAbrams Webroot Employee

The Chimpanzee’s Guide to Password Creation

Sometimes I visit a website that I may never go to again just to read an article, etc. When I have to create an account I create my password by opening notepad and pounding on the keyboard like a chimpanzee – FEWJPOSJGSIUEDAWOIAJ ;RGFAEFA (this chimp hit the cap lock).   Next I copy the passwor...

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Blog Common WordPress Vulnerabilities

Common WordPress Vulnerabilities

WordPress is a powerful platform, but it’s only as secure as you keep it. Keep your website and your users secure with these tips on enhancing WordPress security. Check it out on the Webroot Blog and let me know what you think in the comments below! Maybe we'll get @ConnorM to answer a few of your...

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novajones001

speaker producing unwanted noise
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Speaker are producing too much of unwanted noise, I got a pair of new speakers and they worked fine for the initial week then i connected those to my pc and they started producing distorted sound, is it something wrong with my pc or the speaker?

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jolhoss

The password for Active Processes will not work
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I would like to change an Active Process for FreeYouTubeDownloaderUPdateHelper.exe from "Monitor" to "Allow". It asks for a password. I created the password but it still will not work. Help ! Thank you jolhoss

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Fiv-Digits

Security
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For a beginner,how does webroot provide protection for the device? Like what does it do? If a "hacker" decided to enter the parameter of my area ,how does the "predator"look at the device as? Through the screen. And also when I run the scan of my laptop,with warrior and 6 items are removed. Then whe...

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