It seems to me the Web Shield is obsolete since the Browser Extension was released as a part of WSA. If it's not, can anyone explain it's role in WSA? Any thoughts of this?
Best answer by Shawn
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View originalNo, it's okay. 🙂 We're all very passionate about WSA/PrevX. That's why we're discussing it; because we care and want to help Webroot making WSA even better! The fact that English is not my first language didn't make it any easier. 😃@ wrote:
Sorry if I sounded harsh truly I'm not that way I'm just passionate about the things I know and can remember about WSA and all the way back to the Prevx years! LOL@ wrote:
It was as I suspected then! Hopefully the settings for ID-shield and Web Filter will be more logical eventually... and perhaps the Web Shield will be removed entirely. :D
Anyhow...
Thank you for an answer! I think many of us needed to hear this info!
Cheers and have a Goodnight,
Daniel ;)
@I have just tested with IE. I can also confirm this. Good find@ wrote:
At the same time I can confirm that the Web Shield is broken with Internet Explorer 11.
Devs should probably investigate if it's an IE 11 issue or not. Not sure what browser you tested with Shawn.
I'm glad we could find the reason why I and everyone else misunderstood the problem. 🙂 Devs will fix this now once we've located the issue! Thanks for confirming ams963!@ wrote:
@I have just tested with IE. I can also confirm this. Good find@ wrote:
At the same time I can confirm that the Web Shield is broken with Internet Explorer 11.
Devs should probably investigate if it's an IE 11 issue or not. Not sure what browser you tested with Shawn.
@ . The problem is only with IE. With FF the shield works as intended.
Very much correct. It's just a gimmick in the GUI of WSA for novice/average users. The more features in the GUI the better the product must be, right? Empty features that no normal user will notice...@ wrote:
So, just to verify what I understand and seem to be seeing.
The Web Shield slider in WSA under PC Security does absolutely nothing except change the color of the Webroot Console and trigger an alert/warning.
Additionally, the two tick boxes under Advanced Settings, Firewall: "Detect and block malicious websites" and "Show safety ratings when using search engines" - ALSO do absolutely nothing except for what's listed above.
The only thing that actually seems to control the web url filtering and the green checkmarks next to search engine results seems to be the Add-on for IE, and the extensions for Chrome and Firefox. The only time URLs are filtered for me is when the extension is installed and enabled. The tick boxes and sliders in WSA do not have any effect on the results.
Is this correct? I'm running Win 7 x64 with latest versions of Chrome, IE, Firefox, and WSA Internet Security Plus 8.0.6.28.
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