My concern is that I was attempting to add a "non-secure" network printer directly to my PC and I'm wondering if this connection/port could have been used to hack into my PC and load/run some erroneous software. Am I exposed with this network printer? Can Webroot detect/prevent this exposure? I recall a brief message indicating a non-secure network.
Since adding this printer on 12/15, I noticed that Webroot was updated in my control panel programs on 12/16 without my knowledge. I don't know if this was a coincidence with a new version of Webroot or a spoof related to the new printer.
In googling I saw that a new version 9.0.7.42 of Webroot was released on 12/15 so it seems like a valid upgrade. Would Webroot do this auto upgrade of this new version.
A few days after the new Webroot version was loaded on 12/16, I noticed that there was a "gotomeeting" upgrade on 12/19. I don't know if this was again an auto upgrade or a spoof. I was hacked once before with a gotomeeting type program so I'm concerned about this upgrade.
Then on 12/21, I booted my PC but did not have the wireless enabled. After a few minutes, there was a windows security popup stating that "the following program would like to make changes to you computer- Yess|No". There was additional info about the WRSA.exe program including the details of the certificate which looked OK.
I was concerned about this being a spoof program, but after reloading my PC with all orig SW, I was able to repro the same message. So this seems like an OK behavior/message with 9.0.7.42. Can you confirm?
Lastly, I noticed that if I boot my PC with wireless off, Webroot will hang during a scan. And if I enable wireless, it still hangs. I have to kill a sub-process, to get Webroot to work again. Is this expected behavior.
Thanks for your help.
Regards Jamie Cohen
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