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@scottalanmiller said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@Brains said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@Nic said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@scottalanmiller said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@Brains said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@scottalanmiller said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@Brains said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@Breffni-Potter said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@Brains said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@Nic said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

re: no internet - Webroot defaults to monitoring any new exe using the local heuristics until it can get back online. That way if it's determined to be malicious it can roll back any changes that new process has made.

seems like a nice compromise on a cloud AV

Oh Webroot is an amazing product. If you are thinking of getting it, do try it out and give it a run for it's money.

Unfortunately we just renewed our horrible Kaspersky since we didnt have time to properly test a new AV in our environment :due to all the major projects we had at the time

Hit of @nic and see what webroot can do to fix that. Don't just assume that all is lost. Webroot might be able to bail you out.

They already spent the $$$ for Kaspersky, they wont replace it until renewal time.

Right, and I'm saying that that is not necessarily a factor. If they are intentionally throwing money and protection away, well nothing is going to help with that. But that they already spent money is not a factor. Not necessarily, anyway.

Or you just wait out the Kaspersky contract and then check us out come renewal time. I mean, it's not like you're on Symantec - Kaspersky is at least decent

Yea thats what im planning, I absolutely hate Kaspersky's management. Exclusions arent even consistent across all of their modules. Mid Sized company = mid sized budget

But why plan for that? Why not fix the problem now if it ends up not costing any money?

I dont understand how it wouldnt cost money to switch to Webroot. IT hours cost - I could probably make it work. IT hours cost + new software cost = unfeasible

@Nic said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@scottalanmiller said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@Brains said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@scottalanmiller said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@Brains said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@Breffni-Potter said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@Brains said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@Nic said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

re: no internet - Webroot defaults to monitoring any new exe using the local heuristics until it can get back online. That way if it's determined to be malicious it can roll back any changes that new process has made.

seems like a nice compromise on a cloud AV

Oh Webroot is an amazing product. If you are thinking of getting it, do try it out and give it a run for it's money.

Unfortunately we just renewed our horrible Kaspersky since we didnt have time to properly test a new AV in our environment :due to all the major projects we had at the time

Hit of @nic and see what webroot can do to fix that. Don't just assume that all is lost. Webroot might be able to bail you out.

They already spent the $$$ for Kaspersky, they wont replace it until renewal time.

Right, and I'm saying that that is not necessarily a factor. If they are intentionally throwing money and protection away, well nothing is going to help with that. But that they already spent money is not a factor. Not necessarily, anyway.

Or you just wait out the Kaspersky contract and then check us out come renewal time. I mean, it's not like you're on Symantec - Kaspersky is at least decent

Yea thats what im planning, I absolutely hate Kaspersky's management. Exclusions arent even consistent across all of their modules. Mid Sized company = mid sized budget

@scottalanmiller said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@Brains said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@Breffni-Potter said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@Brains said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@Nic said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

re: no internet - Webroot defaults to monitoring any new exe using the local heuristics until it can get back online. That way if it's determined to be malicious it can roll back any changes that new process has made.

seems like a nice compromise on a cloud AV

Oh Webroot is an amazing product. If you are thinking of getting it, do try it out and give it a run for it's money.

Unfortunately we just renewed our horrible Kaspersky since we didnt have time to properly test a new AV in our environment :due to all the major projects we had at the time

Hit of @nic and see what webroot can do to fix that. Don't just assume that all is lost. Webroot might be able to bail you out.

They already spent the $$$ for Kaspersky, they wont replace it until renewal time.

Kind PB & Dark Chocolate Gluten-Free "granola" bars. Delicious

@Breffni-Potter said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@Brains said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

@Nic said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

re: no internet - Webroot defaults to monitoring any new exe using the local heuristics until it can get back online. That way if it's determined to be malicious it can roll back any changes that new process has made.

seems like a nice compromise on a cloud AV

Oh Webroot is an amazing product. If you are thinking of getting it, do try it out and give it a run for it's money.

Unfortunately we just renewed our horrible Kaspersky since we didnt have time to properly test a new AV in our environment :due to all the major projects we had at the time

@Nic said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

re: no internet - Webroot defaults to monitoring any new exe using the local heuristics until it can get back online. That way if it's determined to be malicious it can roll back any changes that new process has made.

seems like a nice compromise on a cloud AV

@tonyshowoff said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Left over pizza, earlier tonight (it's 1am) ordered Pizza Hut, but they screwed up. I asked for American style pizza, so it would come with tomato sauce, but these thrifty Russians used barbecue sauce, which is what they typically use. Oh well.

TIL Russians usually use BBQ sauce on their pizza.

@DustinB3403 said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:

My new laptop running WebRoot SA (graciously provided by @Nic )

I have to say the install was insanely fast, and the scan only took a minute to complete.

How do you like Webroot? We deployed it this week to take care of a Zepto infection, and it seemed VERY easy and user friendly. How well does it work when there is no internet?

First IT job is hazy, ive been fixing computers since I was 13. I guess my first major one was working for Solectron Global Services (Bought By Flextronics). Started off as Sony Laptop Warranty Repair, moved to "Recovery" department due to my 1337 DOS skills haha. I did a lot there, learned how to repair lcd panels (clean room), performed BGA tap testing on motherboards, parts testing and inspection, and resoldering some parts. Promoted to TL and built up the Sony Recovery department, organization, and SOPs.

@thwr said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@Brains said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@thwr said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@Brains said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

In Texas and from Memphis, so..... BBQ! Had some Big Beef Ribs for lunch (Thursday Special - $9.99 w/ 2 sides). They are great ribs and are pasture raised, no hormones, etc, etc

Sounds great, just sad you had to mention that hormone thing

sad as in none of our beef should be pushed full of drugs with side effects?

Yepp. And like "it is was forbidden here"

BUT MUH PROFITZ!!!!!

@thwr said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@Brains said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

In Texas and from Memphis, so..... BBQ! Had some Big Beef Ribs for lunch (Thursday Special - $9.99 w/ 2 sides). They are great ribs and are pasture raised, no hormones, etc, etc

Sounds great, just sad you had to mention that hormone thing

sad as in none of our beef should be pushed full of drugs with side effects?

@momurda said in Quick LSI RAID Question:

A newer motherboard with uefi would be cheaper than a newer rackmount case with backplane. cases like that worth buying cost $500.

no rackmount

@tiagom said in Quick LSI RAID Question:

Is this a custom server? Never saw a model number mentioned.

yea its custom build using an Antec 900 Case

In Texas and from Memphis, so..... BBQ! Had some Big Beef Ribs for lunch (Thursday Special - $9.99 w/ 2 sides). They are great ribs and are pasture raised, no hormones, etc, etc

@travisdh1 said in Quick LSI RAID Question:

@Brains said in Quick LSI RAID Question:

@travisdh1 said in Quick LSI RAID Question:

@Brains said in Quick LSI RAID Question:

@Dashrender said in Quick LSI RAID Question:

Even though the RAID controller won't provide the partitions for you, does that matter? Assuming that the OS will see the entire 5 TB partition, Windows should allow you to create a 350 GB boot partition that you install Windows to, then format the rest as GPT and call it a night.

It wont work. Windows cant boot to a GPT disk if there is no UEFI motherboard installed. Im going to just add a couple more disks and setup disks as the boot volume. Then use GPT on the existing 5TB volume.

My next problem is to figure out how to get this card to allow me to connect 6 drives in the cheapest, most efficient way possible while not sacrificing performance. I have a SF8087->4 SATA connector breakout cable right now. Sounds simple, huh?

You need a port multiplier to connect more than 4 drives with that card. (Marvell 9715 chipset is the one I know is used by Backblaze. Not exactly the greatest storage setup, but it'll work.)

Thanks Travis! I looked around and couldnt really find one with that chipset. Do you have any other recommendations? Also what is the performance impact of using the port multiplier card?

I see good reviews for a company "IO Crest" on Amazon. Anyone heard of them before? I can order through Insight if anyone has a good recommended card that isnt available on consumer sites.

They don't actually say on the blog page. I haven't actually used any myself, but you do have one options that I found.
Amazon 1 to 5 port.

Next time I'd just get a card that has enough ports on it already, or a server case that included the needed backplane.

Performance wise, you will only get a max of 6Gb/s per port, no matter how many drives are connected to the port.

Thanks. Unfortunately this is an upgrade instead of new build, so buying a $4-500 replacement card wasnt needed untill I ran into these GPT problems.

I am open to purchasing a new case w/ backplane if anyone has any good suggestions.

Ill try to take a picture of my home setup and put it up here. This is my work setup

@travisdh1 said in Quick LSI RAID Question:

@Brains said in Quick LSI RAID Question:

@Dashrender said in Quick LSI RAID Question:

Even though the RAID controller won't provide the partitions for you, does that matter? Assuming that the OS will see the entire 5 TB partition, Windows should allow you to create a 350 GB boot partition that you install Windows to, then format the rest as GPT and call it a night.

It wont work. Windows cant boot to a GPT disk if there is no UEFI motherboard installed. Im going to just add a couple more disks and setup disks as the boot volume. Then use GPT on the existing 5TB volume.

My next problem is to figure out how to get this card to allow me to connect 6 drives in the cheapest, most efficient way possible while not sacrificing performance. I have a SF8087->4 SATA connector breakout cable right now. Sounds simple, huh?

You need a port multiplier to connect more than 4 drives with that card. (Marvell 9715 chipset is the one I know is used by Backblaze. Not exactly the greatest storage setup, but it'll work.)

Thanks Travis! I looked around and couldnt really find one with that chipset. Do you have any other recommendations? Also what is the performance impact of using the port multiplier card?

I see good reviews for a company "IO Crest" on Amazon. Anyone heard of them before? I can order through Insight if anyone has a good recommended card that isnt available on consumer sites.

@momurda said in Quick LSI RAID Question:

You could make a big array, then when youre installing windows make a 350GB partition for the windows install, then use the rest as another disk(data i guess) for that server.

Doesnt work. Windows sees the single RAID volume as 1 "disk" and since that disk has over 2TB partition, it has to be GPT. Per SWJ, I cant create 2 volumes on the same raid array

Thanks for the help though

@Dashrender said in Quick LSI RAID Question:

Even though the RAID controller won't provide the partitions for you, does that matter? Assuming that the OS will see the entire 5 TB partition, Windows should allow you to create a 350 GB boot partition that you install Windows to, then format the rest as GPT and call it a night.

It wont work. Windows cant boot to a GPT disk if there is no UEFI motherboard installed. Im going to just add a couple more disks and setup disks as the boot volume. Then use GPT on the existing 5TB volume.

My next problem is to figure out how to get this card to allow me to connect 6 drives in the cheapest, most efficient way possible while not sacrificing performance. I have a SF8087->4 SATA connector breakout cable right now. Sounds simple, huh?

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Brains said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Anyone want the source files? I'm going to send them to virustotal in a little bit

Uhh... nope. That's like walking in and saying "I have herpes, where can I stick this?"

well if you want to play around with the herpes virus or setup a honeypot to collect others