I don't know about your problems Michael but if they are similar to
mine I have found a combination that is the most trouble free for my
systems.
I am a "sys adim" not a proper one I am not that good but I am light
years better than the boss so I am it. I run 5 computers on a small
network both local and remote, I have happily used NIS 2003 pro for
the last few years without any trouble.
I decided it was time to upgrade in September 2004 using NIS 2005 and
installed it on my network at home to make sure it was OK before I
afflicted work with it.
BIG MISTAKE
I had endless problems and aggravation on all machines, my network
failed randomly, remote SSH links were useless, FTP would not work,
AV kept switching itself off and the updates kept cycling downloading
the same updates over & over again. Good job I did not stick it
straight on the office network.
I had to re-install from a Ghost Backup Image to get out of these
problems and lost a fortnights work . I have spent the last 3 months
rethinking and experimenting with upgrading various computers and
found that this combination is OK most of the time.
Norton Firewall 2003 + Norton Antivirus 2005 or NSW 2005 but not if
you have a Creative Soundblaster card.
Norton AV 2005 has issues with Creative Audigy Soundcards and in some
cases (so they say) disables itself and gives an error message. If you
have Creative Audigy Soundcards + Error messages and AV Disabled look
at this.
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...tiVirus&ver=2005&src=sg&pcode=nav&svy=&csm=no
If you get this problem go for another AV solution.
The fixes listed whilst interesting are pretty useless, they always
end up with an uninstall - re-install which does not work either so
don't bother trying.
I am now using the Firewall 2003 + AV 2005 on non creative soundcard
pooters and Panda AV + Firewall 2003 where I have creative soundcards
installed.
I don't know whats going on with Symantec, I know their products are
not well regarded by experienced net users but they are fine for an
environment where most of the staff cannot be trusted to download e
mail without supervision, Norton has always been easy to use and
effective mostly. It gets worse and more bloated with every upgrade.
I am going to replace everything with a Sophos Business solution this
year and Norton is binned.