Webroot is blocking file downloads

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Share Tweet Share Share. Powered by inSided. Sign up Already have an account? Login to the community No account yet? If it weren't for things like this, the world would be overrun with unemployed tech support analysts. I'm having this exact issue on Windows Server. If I disable webroot and run a repair on Office, the files are re associated.

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The Internet is loaded with free files you can download, from screensavers and icons to music, articles and much more. But free files often come with a big cost: a computer infected with spyware.

Some devious online predators also impersonate real companies to get you to download malware. How can seemingly safe file sharing leave you vulnerable to spyware and, as a result, identity theft and potential loss of money? It all starts with a simple click. We need basic cookies to make this site work, therefore these are the minimum you can select.

We have recently updated our Privacy Policies. We encourage you to read the full terms here. And why isn't it easier to do so? Share Tweet Share Share. And the program I'm talking about isn't a network application, so the firewall tab won't work. This really depends on what you mean by "blocked.

You might mean it's been blocked in Control Active Processes by the user, manually. Maybe you mean it's been blocked by the Identity Shield, causing it to still run but not function as you'd expect.

It's not under any of those things. I was installing the driver. Here's no useful data and some jibberish and some name that doesn't really tell you what the program is or even what it's associated with. Do you want to block or allow or allow this once?

And I can't get it to work. And I can't ublock it because it doesn't appear under anything. Based on the description of the message, that's going to be in the firewall. The "allow once" option makes it a dead giveaway because only the firewall will ever ask you that. It also only ever asks you that if you've cranked the settings up above the recommended defaults. Even applications that are not normally used over a network tend to have network functionality for licensing and other less-obvious reasons.