It's farming, but with some interesting constraints. You have to secure your plants in a way that other industries don't require, and you have to track them from seed to harvest for compliance reasons. The other interesting factor is that because it's been illegal for so long, there's not as much public knowledge or scientific research like there is for other crops. That's part of what we're hoping to change with the Growers Network community.

@virtualrick said in Simplivity - anyone use them?:

@scottalanmiller I cannot argue, ill simply excuse myself, with you being the victor, Ill up vote your post, but keep in mind I gave pricing in my first interaction with you. I'm the engineer, not the sales rep. This is an issue and you are right on every point.

However, being dismissive of a technology due to a non-negotiated price, without conversation is a questionable practice from my perspective. Are you doing your business a favor?

As an architect and customer I would shop features first, based on business objectives, then if the bill is too high, start having the conversation with the business to set expectations, and discuss alternatives. Not fighting you, just my personal perspective.

When you're shopping for a mid-range new car do you go test drive a Rolls Royce or a Lamborghini? No, because you know they are way out of your price range and there's no point wasting your time or setting your expectations too high. All we're asking for is a general indication of what price category we're looking at. Are you a Yugo, a Corolla or a Rolls Royce solution?

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/hawaiian-emergency-management-officials-hold-interview-post-notes-passwords-computer-screens/

Passwords visible on post-it notes

They forgot one: my pants!

You can get 10 years credit monitoring (or opt for a $125 cash payment) and up to 20 hours of your time paid for at $25/hour dealing with credit/identity theft issues:
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/refunds/equifax-data-breach-settlement

We've got a contest going here:
https://community.webroot.com/t5/Announcements-and-Release-Notes/Contest-Your-Picture-s-Worth-32-Gigs/m-p/193027

Just post a picture of a device that is protected by Webroot (a trial is fine if you aren't a customer - or you know, the usual 3x5 card to enter ) and we'll do the drawing for the winner at the end of the month.

woohoo!

Sure, happy to help out. I can get you a keycode to play with and answer any questions you have. @ajstringham has explained it well. We have a gigantic database of files, domain names and IP addresses. Everything that runs on your machine gets an MD5 signature, which is sent up for comparison. Known good files are allowed to run. Known bad aren't. Unknowns are monitored and all the changes journaled in case it has to roll back. Then it sits back and watches the unknown for suspicious behavior and also signals it as something for research by our threat team. That means the scans are very fast - the only time you'll notice a performance hit is for an unknown, due to the journaling. When that happens you can see the unknown in the agent and contact support to get it sorted out quickly. Since we have millions of endpoints out there, new files get categorized quickly and we can analyze a lot of data. We also have OEM partners who use our database to power their own devices, firewalls or sites, and the data from those gets fed back to us too.

For the business app you have a portal where you can see all your machines and kick off scans, issue remote commands or scripts, and manage policies. We also do mobile protection and a light-weight MDM solution (basically lock, wipe, locate and set policy) that is included with the business endpoint service.

There's also a web content filtering service that we use that is powered by the same reputation database that can allow you to block unwanted sites (porn, gambling, etc.) It lets you lock down their proxy settings so they are still filtered even when off your network. That's a separate product from the AV though.

Hope that helps and let me know if you need more info or want a code to test out.

They hired a new guy to do just the photos and featured threads, and he isn't very good at it.

Mango wants to join in on the MangoFun

https://community.webroot.com/t5/Webroot-Education/Best-practices-for-securing-your-environment-against/ta-p/191172

Written by one of our threat researchers, with some tips on how to prevent ransomware from gaining a toehold.

Lol, I can see the confusion. I blame daylight savings

INTJ, the rarest and best one

Ok cool, glad to hear the refund is on the way. I'll PM you a free keycode for a year and hopefully that will make up for some of the hassle you had to go through.

Sometimes you have to go backwards to find your way around an obstacle and move forwards again.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/24/perspectives_on_encryption/

Covers it better than anything else I've read so far

I won't be, but Richard will be there for you to pester about "where's Nic?"

Yeah with a pattern like they've had over the last year, you're asking for trouble if you buy Lenovo. And if you have to, at the very least wipe the machine and start from scratch with your own image.

Wow that is rough - hope you end up getting through it ok no matter which way the cookie crumbles. And you are right about adversity showing you who your true friends are: