Strange Problem Related to Norton Firewall

From: TomR (trunge@home.com)
Date: 01/30/02 

From: trunge@home.com (TomR)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:03:58 GMT

I have run into a Windows boot problem three times in the past 3
months which I discovered was being caused by Norton Firewall. The
first two times, (2-3 months ago) I was running a small shareware
program called memwatcher to free up my ram while burning CDs. Both
times, after using this pgrm, I got a "Windows protection error,
restart your computer" msg which when rebooting after I was done,
would only allow me to go into windows via the safe mode. DELETING
Norton Firewall fixed the problem both times. (The first time it
happened was really fun - I spent about 3 hours experimenting with
different things before I happened upon the firewall corrolation.)
Anyway, upon reinstall, everything worked fine. This morning I
decided to remove 4 or 5 @home programs, as I did not think I needed
them since Cox has switched over to their own servers. Anyway, after
taking these programs off, I once again ran into the above mentioned
problem. I deleted the Firewall and everything is working fine. Have
any of you ever heard of this, or run into it yourself? I have not
yet put the firewall back on, and am not sure if I really need it, but
I think that something must be amiss in the software for this to keep
happening. I also wonder if Symantec would like to know about this.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Tom.

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