Question / Help OBS - Virus Protection Interfearence

Lain

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OBS isn't interfering with it at all, it just gives that warning because webroot is specifically designed to prevent capturing things (usually web browsers), and has been known to cause instability. It's fine otherwise, if you want you can just ignore the warning.
 

Lain

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Monitor capture and window capture probably don't work because webroot is active (or you're on an nvidia laptop with the incorrect adapter set). Webroot is designed to block capturing.
 

MiniclipSean

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Im not on that laptop, but I talked to the good people of Webroot and they made my account so it allows OBS fully. Unless theres another setting im missing here, everything should be fine, and also if I turn off my virus protection, and i stream, hackers might get in my computer. You get me?
 

Lain

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Could you post a log so I can make sure it's nothing in OBS?

All I was saying is that as far as I've ever seen, webroot seems to purposely prevent capture. As far as I know webroot doesn't do this by accident, it does this by design. Why? Because from what I've seen it seems to be designed to protect you from bad applications that try to capture your system to peek at what you're doing. It's an anti-capture security measure.

I am not at all saying "turn it off". I am simply telling you what I know based upon my past experience with other users who have used webroot. It was the same thing with them. If you would prefer to keep webroot on, then by all means, keep it on. Just note that it may interfere with capturing, which is what appears to happening here.

Maybe there's an option to disable their anti-capture stuff in their settings. I would dig around in its settings to see if there is such an option anywhere, and if there is, disable the anti-capture stuff, and restart your computer, that way you can capture your screen with OBS. However, that's completely up to you. I don't quite know what to suggest otherwise.
 

MiniclipSean

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Jim, I am so sorry to waist your time. I opened OBS, and there was an update. I did the update and now everything works fine and dandy. I didn't even change anything. Bottom line all is good now, Thanks so much for helping me out dude! Glad I know there is always someone on the OBS team here watching out for me!
 
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