Many independent tweets confirmed that several major websites, including
Bloomberg and
Facebook, were also marked as phishing sites,
preventing users from accessing their pages.
Security commentator SwiftOnSecurity
tweeted that the Webroot issue was only live for 13 minutes, but the company's efforts to remediate the problem were
getting stalled due to the sheer volume of clients requiring a fix.
The company, which claims to
have more than 30 million users, has so far suggested fixes for the
Home edition and its
Business edition software, but the company has yet to offer anything universal or concrete for its entire affected user base at the time of writing.
A Webroot spokesperson confirmed the issue and that the company is "in the process of creating a fix," but did not say when it would arrive.