Re: Norton Antivirus IIS problems

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From: David Wang [Msft] (someone_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 00:05:27 -0700

I suggest you return Norton Antivirus/Internet Security 2004 and just run
the Firewall in XP Pro.

Security software for the mass consumer tend to assume that users should not
be running servers, such as IIS, so they will completely mess up your
IIS-related settings to prevent you from running it. Unfortunately, you
happen to be a user that wants to run IIS, so your security software is not
doing what you want.

Personally, I cannot offer any help to fix arbitrary hacks made by security
software and suggest that you not waste time trying to work-around it
because Symantec may come up with some future hack to disable IIS, and it
ends up being an arms-race between you and Symantec. The arms race exists
only because you insist on running their product which does not do what you
want -- the easy way to resolve this issue is to either not use Symantec and
use some other security product which works with servers, or advise Symantec
to produce such a product if it doesn't already exist. 

-- 
//David
IIS
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
//
"James" <jamesgurung@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:7AD8A7A4-195A-4FDB-811B-B6D3392C7966@microsoft.com...
I have very recently installed Norton Antivirus and Internet Security 2004
on my Windows XP computer, and now the Internet Information Services seemes
to have been affected. My local websites (http://localhost/) which I'm
developing with VS.NET 2003 can no longer be either viewed ("The page cannot
be displayed") or loaded as web projects in VS.NET (it crashes when trying
to load them; offline projects load fine). And the IIS snap-in for the MMC
dosn't load at all (nothing happens, although the MMC works fine for other
snap-ins). Also, the System Properties (Right-click My Computer, ->
Properties) does not load.
Also, in VS.NET 2003, the program cannot build any projects (including
offline ones) - and this has also only happened since I installed my
antivirus.
Symantec (the Antivirus manufacturers) are being typically useless, so I'm
really desperate for some help! The problems exist even when the antivirus
software is disabled!
Many thanks in advance,
James.

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