Is Folio Academy’s Art Site DANGEROUS, or is Webroot Incompetent?

Webroot is an Incompetent Security Software

We hope try to be open and honest as we know with our peeps, as we know that word of mouth and a good reputation is key in maintaining good business. So when we heard that someone was recommended NOT to visit our page by their security software, we quickly contacted our web guy to get to the bottom of it. We recomend that everyone visit our site.

One of our friends informed us that Webroot was… Well, here’s what she said.

Hi FolioAcademy- (she actually wrote Hi Will, but since I’m writing this and don’t to give him all the glory, I acted like she said Hi FolioAcademy)

Are you aware that your site is one that my (and perhaps other) web security software (I am using Webroot) does NOT recommend you visit? Many folks might be hesitant to continue to your website until this issue is addressed…..

~Ellen Fountain; Watercolor instructor for FolioAcademy & Fountain Studio.

Thank you Ellen and thank you everyone for helping us maintain a safe and secure site. We appreciate ALL of you, our peeps.

Our web guy, Tom Gilson, already knew that Webroot wasn’t that great, but he further checked into it of course. We certainly don’t want to have any danger associated with our site.

Here is some of what Tom found…

From Wikipedia:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webroot

Webroot had the worst results out of 20 products tested by AV-Comparatives in the September 2012 File Detection Test of Malicious Software, both in terms of malware detection rates and false alarms.^[25] Webroot detected less than 80 percent of viral samples, much worse than the 94.4 percent rate of the second lowest detecting product. Among clean files, Webroot inappropriately flagged 210 of them, raising as many false-positives as the other 19 products tested combined. According to AV-comparatives, the “results and misses have been confirmed with several tests and also by the vendor”.^[25]

 

Thank you Tom, for keeping our site safe, up and running and safe for our friends.

Comments Welcome

I don’t believe visiting our site or watching our art lessons has ever harmed any ones PC in any way whatsoever, and we welcome comments, good and bad. Well the bad ones aren’t as welcome of course but we are artists and we know that constructive criticism is necessary for improvement.

“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.” ~Duke Ellington

And here is a nice, Dangerous Illustration by Jim Madsen, for you to enjoy.

Art by Jim Madsen

BE WARE! DANGER! Thar be artists about. They might OPEN your mind.