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Webroot
Company blog · webroot.com/blogsecurity
Webroot is the company blog at webroot.com, writing about security. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Webroot pages as sources for a malware definition, spyware infection statistics and an internet traffic figure. The comments use them as support and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Most malware is developed to serve some profit motive, not as a result of actual abstract malice toward the victim. I really don't think that's enough to disqualify it. Merrium-Webster defines malware as "software designed to interfere with a computer's normal functioning"[0]. WebRoot defines it as "any type of software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent"[1]. Red…
Comment linking /us/en/resources/tips-articles/what-is-malware-protection
on “Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%”Submitted Password Constraints and Their Unintended Security Consequences as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> Is that really happening at any meaningful scale? Anecdotally: oh yes. I don’t know anybody who pays, although that may say more about the populations I work with and hang out with. I hear there’s plenty of headroom for the direct economics to work, if you’re reselling for less than the ~EUR100/month range the commercial providers charge [1]. Gross median income in Spain is on the order of EUR27000 annually, for r…
Comment linking /blog/2021/05/12/we-explored-the-dangers-of-pirated-sport-streams-so-you-dont-have-to/
on “Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives”Submitted TrickBot Banking Trojan Adapts with New Module as a story · 1 points
HN discussion35% of internet traffic is porn https://www.webroot.com/us/en/resources/tips-articles/intern...
Comment linking /us/en/resources/tips-articles/internet-pornography-by-the-numbers
on “MindGeek: The owner of Pornhub and RedTube”Submitted Google’s reCAPTCHA under automatic fire from a new reCAPTCHA-solving service as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYes, if the people making the malware were complete idiots and ran down people's batteries it would be noticeable. But, as on the PC, I'm sure they could find a way to make it just subtle enough to not be noticed. Estimates place the number of personal PCs infected with some kind of malware as high as 89% ( http://www.webroot.com/resources/stateofspyware/excerpt.html ) so I have to believe they could find a way to c…
Comment linking /resources/stateofspyware/excerpt.html
on “Hewitt is Right, Ament is Wrong”