Norton Firewall

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Gerry

Does anyone know the difference or the pro and cons of Norton "Internet
Security" and "Personal Firewall" and is one of them is sufficient for
internet browsing.
Thanks
 
In general, Norton Internet Security 2002 was VERY good.
I have had SEVERE problems with Norton Internet Security 2004!
.....affecting Home Network, Windows Update, booting, login.....

I have had to:
Disable Norton
Enable Xp Native Firewall
UNINSTALL Norton completely, and reboot.
Allow PC to simmer gently for 5 minutes, login, simmer a further
5 minutes and reboot.
Repeat 3 or 4 times to allow WinXp to optimise Startup process
(built-in optimisation) and organise on-disk drivers.
.............................Login for me NOW takes 30seconds, including
startup of various services, ISP login, net services etc.
(*)Disable Xp Native Firewall
Re-install Norton.

Over 4/5 months I have done this 3 times.
At the moment I have reached (*) on my 4th Cycle...
I am still trying to decide what to do now!
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Pat Garard
Australia

Anne & Pat Garard.
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Another add-on comment I missed in my other post: You must have at least a
good Firewall AND a good Anti-Virus Program which you keep updated or you
will be soon attract Worms, Bugs, Viruses, etc,. I have Internet Internet
Security 2003 and recommend it, although I have turned off the Spam,
Privacy, etc, stuff because they were blocking friendly sites.
 
Personally I find all Symantec programs accept Norton Anti-
virus are garbage. The built in firewall in XP is good for
stand alone computing. Use it and then by Norton Anti-
Virus by itself. All the pop-up spam and stuff can be
stopped with free programs.
 
I even find Norton Antivirus to suck.

In all my years working in the technical support section of the computer
field, more often then not, if a user had issues with slow boots, slow
running OS or just generic errors, odds are they had a Norton product
installed.

I do not recommend Norton or Symantec products to anyone. I guess you
could say that I am ANTI-Symantec...lol

The only Symantec product that I will ever use or recommend is Ghost, and
that is booted from a floppy.

Craig
 
That certainly places you in the minority doesn't it?

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(driftin' blues player and gospel picker)
 
The XP Firewall does not work if one is on a LAN such as a home LAN. My
router has a hardware firewall, but I still have a software firewall
(NIS) on each of the computers attached to the LAN. The software
firewalls, among other things, are updated periodically, and they keep
stuff from getting out as well as stuff from getting in. Also, it is my
general impression, that the SP firewall is week compared to other
products such as Zone Alarm (available in a freeware version) and NIS,
both of which seem to generally have high ratings. See the newsgroups
at www.grc.com.
Personally I find all Symantec programs accept Norton Anti-
virus are garbage. The built in firewall in XP is good for
stand alone computing. Use it and then by Norton Anti-
Virus by itself. All the pop-up spam and stuff can be
stopped with free programs.
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Pat Garard said:
In general, Norton Internet Security 2002 was VERY good.
I have had SEVERE problems with Norton Internet Security 2004!
....affecting Home Network, Windows Update, booting, login.....

I have had to:
Disable Norton
Enable Xp Native Firewall
UNINSTALL Norton completely, and reboot.
Allow PC to simmer gently for 5 minutes, login, simmer a further
5 minutes and reboot.
Repeat 3 or 4 times to allow WinXp to optimise Startup process
(built-in optimisation) and organise on-disk drivers.
............................Login for me NOW takes 30seconds, including
startup of various services, ISP login, net services etc.
(*)Disable Xp Native Firewall
Re-install Norton.

Over 4/5 months I have done this 3 times.
At the moment I have reached (*) on my 4th Cycle...
I am still trying to decide what to do now!
Click to expand...

Take norton disk to the yard.
Whistle for the dog.
With an underhand motion toss the disk.
The dog will return the disk to you.
Soon the dog will tire of this and not return the disk.
Problem solved.......
 
Take norton disk to the yard.
Whistle for the dog.
With an underhand motion toss the disk.
The dog will return the disk to you.
Soon the dog will tire of this and not return the disk.
Problem solved.......
Click to expand...

Yep, that'll work ;^)
 
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