I always figured the most efficient way to do that was capture the encryption key in memory, not that your AV should be grabbing those.
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I always figured the most efficient way to do that was capture the encryption key in memory, not that your AV should be grabbing those.
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Finally found both ESET's and Webroot's test results in SE Labs' latest report for home consumers.
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The video is giving me 2010s vibes (The intro, The music and the slides).
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for sharing.
That's the one they did fairly well at, but I feel that the blanket detection stats are more accurate than the aggregates that they use:
Relative to Zonealarm, Avira, they detected 1 less file. Products like Sophos, Avast, F-Secure, Eset, etc., it was 2 files. But when you consider identity shield, a compromise with Webroot by something like a banking trojan would have less severe consequences than other products. If Webroot were able to fix their inconsistency problem with, tests they'd have a top tier product. Assuming you consider any of these tests valid at all.
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Not true. A noob would be perfectly fine with webroot. In fact I tend to recommend it, as it’s quite with very few fps and quite solid. It’s also the lightest.Webroot was not intended for noobs..it's designed for people who are IT specialists who have full knowledge about how Webroot actually works!For people like that, the product truly shines
His post was a sarcasm to Webroot's fanboys telling to people criticizing it that they don't know how to use it...
Light, depends where you look. If for RAM and general OS responsiveness, yes. If for disk writing, no way. It is the only AV i see writing 4gb of datas in less than 30mn...
Solid? Webfilter, yes. The rest, not so much.
You are right, Webroot is perfect for noobs, people who don't know much about technicalities, want a light set & forget AV, thinking it is awesome.
I personally wouldn't use it, but when I tested it, I saw extremely minor performance impact.
I haven't seen it writing huge amounts of data to the disk and that might have been some temporary issue.
Yeah, noobs like this sort of stuff, that doesn't do much and doesn't bother them lol
Antivirus is good, better than McAfee but on my tests it didn't handle fileless attacks too well. Or more likely it didn't detect them at all.
Seems like Webroot doesn't know they exist. I
Interface was, at the very least, blurry.
I recommend it to people who watch online TV all day lol
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Well know issues since a decade.
The culprit, I tend to believe from my testing, is the journaling mechanism, who start recording the activity of low-reputation or unknown program/processes, and write in the WRdata folder.
Because Webroot is new to script-based attack vectors, the anti-script protection was added around a year ago...Quite late...
Also fileless attacks uses legitimate LOLbins which are probably all whitelisted.
I don't remember you can tweak its BB to block them manually.
They promised a true anti-exploit feature (a la EMET) to prevent memory-based threats (trademark of fileless attacks) but the project seems dead in the water...
To be honest, I only gave it a 10-minute spin and I uninstalled it.
The poor script-based attacks blocking was a put-off for me I would not recommend this software to people in a need of a good security.
Prior to the test, I increased the heuristics level, that didn't help.
I also noticed the poor anti-exploit features.
Now that you've enlightened me about an ongoing performance issue, I will not be recommending it even to noobs.
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I beta-test it since it's first beta a decade ago and even when its past iteration called Prevx.
performance wise it is light, you won't suffer slowdown at all, problem is this damn journalism mechanism on what Webroot whole protection is based on (aka the "rollback" system).
Many users complained about it, and instead of giving a option to prevent its oversized writing, they just told users to manually delete the files if too big.... Great developers lol.
I beta-test it since it's first beta a decade ago and even when its past iteration called Prevx.
performance wise it is light, you won't suffer slowdown at all, problem is this damn journalism mechanism on what Webroot whole protection is based on (aka the "rollback" system).
Many users complained about it, and instead of giving a option to prevent its oversized writing, they just told users to manually delete the files if too big.... Great developers lol.
I dropped them a message on FB commenting their poor user experience. I am obviously not John McAfee, but I've got connections and I am used to companies normally being a bit more acceptive of my feedback. From a business point of view, you should reply when someone is commenting on your products.
However, I received no response from them to date. I remember this UI from ages ago and it's not great.
If that's how you present your product and business, the journaling system is your least of an issue.
Product is visibly underdeveloped.
indeed, a professional Q&A/pentesting colleague, who quite liked Webroot, send them dozen of reports about breaches and other "bypasses" he found, all he got back from the support was a huge silence...and even in one case an unpleasant answer like he is bothering them...
But how frequently are they actually doing any major changes? Are they changing anything at all? I am not familiar with their release cycle.
That is the problem with Webroot, as a closed beta-tester, they just inform you about a new build without telling what changes or what was fixed. Just eventually some hype when they add a new feature.
Their closed beta-testing is just a joke, where people spam at every new build "no problem so far"...there is no interaction with devs, they don't ask to replicate issues, etc... That sum the whole professionalism of Webroot, no wonder they released 2 times updates that crippled thousand of systems, reason they lost important corporate contracts.
Niye that I was the one suggesting the idea of a private closed beta subforum...they did years later lol.
Their closed beta-testing is just a joke, where people spam at every new build "no problem so far"...there is no interaction with devs, they don't ask to replicate issues, etc... That sum the whole professionalism of Webroot, no wonder they released 2 times updates that crippled thousand of systems, reason they lost important corporate contracts.
Niye that I was the one suggesting the idea of a private closed beta subforum...they did years later lol.
Now I'm starting to think even McAfee is better than webroot
They sorta listen and try to improve.
I remember using it years ago I couldn't figure out why my hard drive was so low on space. There was so much gb's of data in the WRdata folder it was insane. I do remember being fond of Spy Sweeper though.
The whole implementation of this system is not great. Seems like their whitelist is not really huge either. There is also no way to select how much space it can occupy. Also, why does it need to record tons of data... You'll only need to revert couple of hours in the worst case... it's not really smartly designed.
Webroot was exceptionay efficient at the beginning, reason I liked it very much, and promoted it here but with time passing they severely went down, no wonder they sold it for cheap to a backup imaging vendor...
I have a client that's been running it for the past few months and the folder is only 100 megabytes.
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