Re: Home Networking

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For desktop computers in my opinion your router will be enough firewall to
protect computers connected to your network as long as you also have good
antivirus and spyware protection. So I would enable Norton Internet Security
but either leave the firewall component of it disabled or configure it to
trust your local network in the firewall settings for it. Depending on your
version there may be different ways of doing it but they all should have a
setting to trust your local network either based on your internal network IP
or based on the network that accesses the internal mac address of your
router.

Steve


"Matthew S. Armshaw" <MatthewSArmshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Steve -

Thanks for the quick response. I believe the problem was with the Internet
security.
I turned off Norton Internet Security as well as the firewall and now can
connect to the desktop and printer from my laptop. I am now worried about
the security. Is there any way too configure the firewall and Internet
Security while keeping netwok connectivity up?

Thanks,
Matt


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