Just installed WEBROOT and what to know if I need to uninstall NORTON which is set to expire in 6 days.
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The choice is yours. Webroot SecureAnywhere can either replace or work alongside your
existing antivirus software.
Webroot SecureAnywhere is fully compatible with other mainstream antivirus products and
will work alongside any existing antivirus software to detect and remove any threats it
misses, and to protect your financial and personal information.
You will not be asked to uninstall your existing antivirus when installing Webroot
SecureAnywhere.
In my Opinion remove Norton as WSA will protect you much better here is a list of AV removal tools Also you must use Windows Firewall or a Third Party Firewall along with WSA please see here: http://www.webroot.com/En_US/SecureAnywhere/PC/WSA_PC_Help.htm#C4_Firewall/CH4a_ManagingFirewall.htm
The choice is yours. Webroot SecureAnywhere can either replace or work alongside your
existing antivirus software.
Webroot SecureAnywhere is fully compatible with other mainstream antivirus products and
will work alongside any existing antivirus software to detect and remove any threats it
misses, and to protect your financial and personal information.
You will not be asked to uninstall your existing antivirus when installing Webroot
SecureAnywhere.
In my Opinion remove Norton as WSA will protect you much better here is a list of AV removal tools Also you must use Windows Firewall or a Third Party Firewall along with WSA please see here: http://www.webroot.com/En_US/SecureAnywhere/PC/WSA_PC_Help.htm#C4_Firewall/CH4a_ManagingFirewall.htm
your best asking one on the experts i think it would be recommend that you uninstalling norton but some antivirus programs will work with webroot as its in the cloud protection ask @ to make sure.
Petrovic is correct you need to watch more and learn my friend! WSA will run with most other AV's & AM's but it's not needed IMO but since the OP has only 6 days left I would remove Norton.@ wrote:
your best asking one on the experts i think it would be recommend that you uninstalling norton but some antivirus programs will work with webroot as its in the cloud protection ask@ to make sure.
Daniel 😉
yeah i agree with you i knew you could use more than one anti virus program but there is no point as webroot the best one out and the only one that uses cloud protection lol 🙂
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yeah i agree with you i knew you could use more than one anti virus program but there is no point as webroot the best one out and the only one that uses cloud protection lol :)
It must be way over 200TB of info by now as that's so old! @ @ @
Tiny Local App
Jaroch explained that all the SecureAnywhere products are exactly the same file, with different features turned on based on which license key you use. Where most security suite installers weigh in anywhere from 60MB to well over 200MB, SecureAnywhere would fit on a floppy disk, so there's no reason to create separate versions.
Jaroch's team totally built the product from the ground up using raw C code. There are no embedded bitmaps, no visual tool libraries, no buttons. Every element of the user interface is rendered as needed.
"If you snap a screenshot of our product and save it as a bitmap, the screenshot will be bigger than the product itself," Jaroch said. Morris added that this minuscule local client leaves little "surface area" exposed to attack by malware.
Immense Cloud Database
One reason the local application can be so tiny is that it doesn't include any malware signatures, Morris explained. The Prevx technology relies entirely on an immense database of applications and behaviors in the cloud. This database collects and correlates an almost-unimaginable amount of information about every process ever run on any system with SecureAnywhere (or Prevx) installed. Along with the expected notes about process behavior it correlates things like the geographic location, browser version, and other elements of the sample's "habitat."
According to Morris, this database, code named ENZO, can include as many as two million database rows for a single process.
"Cybersecurity is all about information," said Morris. "We store and correlate all the factors about the process's behavior in all the places it was seen. We aim to have more information than anyone, so we can offer better protection than anyone."
A Researcher Inside Your PC
In most antivirus research labs, technicians dismantle malware samples, run them under controlled circumstances, and analyze what they do.
"Some threats may not do anything bad if they've been coded to lie low when running at, for example, a Symantec IP address," Morris said. He went on to explain, "I asked the researchers exactly what tools do you need, and what information do you expect to get? Then we put those tools into the product."
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392059,00.asp
Daniel :D
Tiny Local App
Jaroch explained that all the SecureAnywhere products are exactly the same file, with different features turned on based on which license key you use. Where most security suite installers weigh in anywhere from 60MB to well over 200MB, SecureAnywhere would fit on a floppy disk, so there's no reason to create separate versions.
Jaroch's team totally built the product from the ground up using raw C code. There are no embedded bitmaps, no visual tool libraries, no buttons. Every element of the user interface is rendered as needed.
"If you snap a screenshot of our product and save it as a bitmap, the screenshot will be bigger than the product itself," Jaroch said. Morris added that this minuscule local client leaves little "surface area" exposed to attack by malware.
Immense Cloud Database
One reason the local application can be so tiny is that it doesn't include any malware signatures, Morris explained. The Prevx technology relies entirely on an immense database of applications and behaviors in the cloud. This database collects and correlates an almost-unimaginable amount of information about every process ever run on any system with SecureAnywhere (or Prevx) installed. Along with the expected notes about process behavior it correlates things like the geographic location, browser version, and other elements of the sample's "habitat."
According to Morris, this database, code named ENZO, can include as many as two million database rows for a single process.
"Cybersecurity is all about information," said Morris. "We store and correlate all the factors about the process's behavior in all the places it was seen. We aim to have more information than anyone, so we can offer better protection than anyone."
A Researcher Inside Your PC
In most antivirus research labs, technicians dismantle malware samples, run them under controlled circumstances, and analyze what they do.
"Some threats may not do anything bad if they've been coded to lie low when running at, for example, a Symantec IP address," Morris said. He went on to explain, "I asked the researchers exactly what tools do you need, and what information do you expect to get? Then we put those tools into the product."
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392059,00.asp
Daniel :D
hi dan how do i check for new malware if you dont mind me asking
It's not up to us it's the Job of the WIN Cloud: http://www.brightcloud.com/platform/webroot-intelligence-network.php and the Webroot Threat Researchers.@ wrote:
hi dan how do i check for new malware if you dont mind me asking
If you want to learn more about WSA you can watch videos here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/WebrootEducation
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4smGh0DLnbm5I6WfBPsCrw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfqdHh38_wniFjll7yWk16w
and here are allot of new ones: https://www.brighttalk.com/channel/8241 also there is a new one on Feb 17 at 1:00PM EST https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/8241/144383
thanks for sharing i will check them out. as people say you learn something new everyday even if its small things lol 🙂 thats my nan saying
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