Re: Norton Interent Security 2005

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From: R. C. White (rc_at_corridor.net)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:58:13 -0600

Hi, Duane.

NIS is the only Norton product that I continue to use. (I started with
Norton Utilities 20 years ago when Peter Norton still was writing such
useful programs as DiskEdit.)

With NIS 2004, I had the same firewall issues you are describing. But since
installing NIS 2005, I've have very few popups asking me whether to allow
transmissions through the firewall. I'm not sure what made the difference,
but I think that I was more lenient in installing NIS2005, having suffered
the frustrations with 2004. I just let NIS 2005 configure itself to a
greater degree than I did with NIS 2004.

I generally practice "safe hex". Recent scans with Ad-Aware and Spybot -
Search & Destroy showed no significant problems. The beta of the new
Microsoft Anti-Spyware program was installed and run last week and it showed
no problems at all. Apparently, my NIS settings are now tweaked just about
right. ;<)

RC 

-- 
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@corridor.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
"Duane" <Duane@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:20B26074-E4B1-4860-924C-BE688FEFCFD1@microsoft.com...
> OK, no dummie here but....Norton Internet Security 2005 is driving my 
> crazy.
> I have shosen to disable the Internet Security "Firewall" portion and have
> gone back to using the Firewall installed in XP Pro SP2. My issues with
> Norton was that it came up with too many questions to block this 
> connection
> (reccomended), refuse this connection (reccomended) , blokck one, manually
> configure etc....!!!!
>
> Yet, for the average Joe, I had no idea what I was blocking or allowing. I
> do not know if anyone else has experienced this or if anyone has any
> suggestions on whether or not to stick with the Windows firewall and use 
> the
> Norton Anti-virus feature or go back to the Norton firewall and play hit 
> and
> miss on if I allow or block a legit threat! Any comments are apprecatied. 
> I
> also run Spybot Search and Destroy and keep coming up with DOS Exploits 
> that
> seem to reappear everytime I rin the program. I am just trying to do the 
> best
> I can to protect agains slimebag hackers, spammers, blockups etc...
>
>
> Thanks much for any wisdom!
> Regards,
> Duane

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