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@BRRABill Webroot is no longer using the Sophos engine. They acquired Prevx and rebuilt everything around that about 6 years back. Also I'm already at my new gig so you can page @JoshP_Webroot for any Webroot questions from here on out.

Watch this video:
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Warning NSFW language, drug use, and you might laugh so loud that your cube neighbor asks you what is going on.

Especially if they start allowing weapons:
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Dashrender is coming in to town for it, so I'm looking forward to meeting up with him. I'll be off tomorrow as it's a 3-day event, but I'll be back with pictures:

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That's a lot of "ruling out" over a personal agenda not tied to corporate value.

What if it is a corporate value though - healthier employees.

But it's a necessary medicine for a lot of people. One of the reasons to ALLOW it is for healthier employees! Not that any drug automatically makes people healthier or unhealthier, but you are basically saying that you'd happily make innocent people unhealthy and guilty ones more healthy and/or that you want to filter out people who need medication which is just evil.

Imagine if you fired anyone who needed heart burn medication or medication for heart attacks to "eliminate the unhealthy"!!!

Well, if we limit the discussion purely to weed, I'll agree with you. But if we include cigarettes, yeah - no.

Sure, I'd STILL not be willing to limit in that way but it is SO much better to not hire cigarette smokers than weed smokers. If you were to choose one of the two, cigarettes make you a health liability, tend to take tons of breaks at work, smell bad, bother other workers, etc. But I'd still never drug test for tobacco INSTEAD of determining someone's value at work. Firing someone for dipping or whatever would be considered insane... and yet it is so much better than hiring based on someone not smoking weed.

Yep I agree with all those things.

I'm on your side Scott - I don' t think we should drug test expect for things you previously stated (doctors, heavy equipment operators). Now that said, if a company is going to "have you drive something while on the clock" it should be fine to require they truthfully answer - do you smoke weed/do drugs, if so, you can't be behind a wheel while on the clock for me, period. But sitting behind a desk - fine.

This thread is full of persoonal bias from a lifetime of brainwashing and propaganda.
Why would someone who is hungover from a night of binge drinking be allowed to operate machinery and not someone who smoked a joint the night before? Why? Because you have been trained your entire life to think drugs are bad... that is the only reason you would say this.

As for people who smoke not being hireable, well I don't know where yall live, but in Washington, many highly successful people smoke. Many successful people drink. Why should there be some sort of discrimination between types of inebriation off the clock?

The data from Colorado for the past couple years backs this up: http://reason.com/archives/2016/04/25/early-lessons-from-marijuana-legalizatio

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2226651-the-next-chapter-in-the-spiceworks-story
Will be interesting to see what happens.

We're doing a webinar with a demo of how it work:
Ransomware is a true plague for today’s industry. Unfortunately this type of cybercrime seems to pay off: it has been said that the creators of the notorious CryptoLocker virus approximately earned $30 million. This financial aspect plus the recently leaked CryptoLocker source code could explain increasingly sophisticated ransomware arising on a regular basis.

To give partners a better understanding of this subject Contec B.V. has set up an exclusive ransomware webinar on April 29th and May 13th. By executing a LIVE CryptoLocker infection, an IT security consultant will demonstrate:

• How the virus proceeds after infection
• How an organization can quickly determine the source in case of an infection
• What steps are advisable after an infection

There is a limited number of places available, so register quickly!

Register now:

Wednesday 29th April 2015

Wednesday 13th May 2015

I'd hear his story out of curiosity, but unless it is a damn good excuse then he'd be out for me.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/11/breach-at-it-automation-firm-landesk/

LANDESK, a company that sells software to help organizations securely and remotely manage their fleets of desktop computers, servers and mobile devices, alerted employees last week that a data breach may have exposed their personal information. But LANDESK employees contacted by this author say the breach may go far deeper for the company and its customers.

Here you go: http://www.webroot.com/us/en/business/products/endpoint/
And we have special discounts off list prices for MLers and SpiceHeads, so let me know if you end up purchasing for them.

We have a monthly feature on our community of Guard Dogs of Webroot, but this month we're branching out. A newly born calf on one of our employee's farm needs a name, and we need your suggestions:
https://community.webroot.com/t5/Introduce-yourself-to-the/Help-name-the-very-first-Guard-Cow-for-Webroot/m-p/198631

F***[moderated] up really badly?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/23/asus_router_flaws_settlement/

20 years of audits, $16k fine per violation in the future - hopefully this will make some other vendors sit up and pay attention.

That explains why you were so distraught at being trapped alone in a parking garage

They added this since people were complaining about not liking the nominated list, so now you can nominate and vote for anyone:
http://community.spiceworks.com/spice_lists/425

(and I don't need to tell you who I want you to vote for )

The Register is calling them out on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/TheRegister/status/738093006574653440

"Get pregnant at Oracle Day!"

Crypto ransomware has come a long way over the past 2½ years and no single solution can stop it 100% of the time. The damage from becoming a victim of crypto ransomware and not having adequate safeguards and mitigation strategies in place is considerable. For SMBs, such an attack could put them out of business permanently. But the right recovery and mitigation strategies can keep businesses a step ahead of this virulent threat and ensure you and your clients are effectively protected.

This webinar will cover:

*A brief overview of ransomware's evolution
*How ransomware infects systems today
*The costs associated with being hit by ransomware
*How best to protect you and your clients from ransomware
*Join our complimentary webinar to learn about the latest trends in ransomware and to make sure you have the right solutions in place to stay ahead of this destructive threat.

Register here.

I'm organizing folks to help find people new jobs here:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1680735-spiceheads-and-green-guys-gals-assemble

If you have any leads please post them.

Sorry, you found my sock puppets