App Review Webroot SecureAnywhere 2024

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bazang

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Jul 3, 2024
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However it used to create an ungodly large file (I forgot what it was called) and I had to clear that folder up every week or so. That file was a few gigs in size.
The file = "Journaling File", which records most of the actions performed on the system (in the registry and the file system).

Webroot is OK. I can make it work and work quite well. I just do not need it and choose not to use it. If I had a system with low CPU and primary memory then I would use it.

I use F-Secure and then harden Windows. I do not use an Admin account. I set up the system and I never change it. The security choices I make work for me. I do everything from coding to OSINT to forensics to pentesting. All the tool sets. I do not encounter breakages very often. The methods I utilize can work for others if they are willing to put some effort into it. If not, then they can play musical security software games until they find something that works for them.

Security is not software. It is a process.
 

likeastar20

Level 9
Verified
Mar 24, 2016
423
Unfortunately, I got no WRYES here. Inspected all folders and files.
According to SpyShelter, there is a process WRYES.exe. I do not have that.
This made me check mine and I had it yesterday, I spotted it in Task Manager. Now I can't see it anymore.
 

cartaphilus

Level 11
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Mar 17, 2023
517
Unfortunately, I got no WRYES here. Inspected all folders and files.
According to SpyShelter, there is a process WRYES.exe. I do not have that.
You have been judged by the Webroot God and found wanting. You were not worthy!


I have to dig up some of my old lic boxes and see if it will be accepted as a valid code. Might as well create a snapshot and install it on a system that's running eset and see if they will play nicely together if mutually excluded.
 

Trident

Level 34
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Feb 7, 2023
2,349
Is anyone going to test the "NEW" Improved Webroot?
I do not have access to the "improved" Webroot, but the non-improved is not doing very well. The product has exceptionally high detection on executables, but on MSI and other files it suffers. I have now decided to test the business version, which is not too expensive. It offers all the shield, plus system-wide web blocking (which for now is not in home products). Let's see what the business version can do.

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ForgottenSeer 114834

I do not have access to the "improved" Webroot, but the non-improved is not doing very well. The product has exceptionally high detection on executables, but on MSI and other files it suffers. I have now decided to test the business version, which is not too expensive. It offers all the shield, plus system-wide web blocking (which for now is not in home products). Let's see what the business version can do.

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Did you go to the location and manually check the detection to make sure it's not traces? NPE is that aggressive sometimes.
 

Trident

Level 34
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Feb 7, 2023
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Did you go to the location and manually check the detection to make sure it's not traces? NPE is that aggressive sometimes.
It is not traces, the malware was active in memory. And there was plenty more (scripts) not detected by NPE either. Webroot has Script Shield and Foreign Code Shield that are supposedly meant to deal with this. But they don't.
 
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ForgottenSeer 114834

It is not traces, the malware was active in memory. And there was plenty more (scripts) not detected by NPE either. Webroot has Script Shield and Foreign Code Shield that are supposedly meant to deal with this. But they don't.
Had to ask from the single screenshot. I'm betting that gets over looked a lot in here, but assume that you are thorough.
 
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likeastar20

Level 9
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Mar 24, 2016
423
I do not have access to the "improved" Webroot, but the non-improved is not doing very well. The product has exceptionally high detection on executables, but on MSI and other files it suffers. I have now decided to test the business version, which is not too expensive. It offers all the shield, plus system-wide web blocking (which for now is not in home products). Let's see what the business version can do.

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Wondering how long it would take to be detected while running in memory
 

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