Re: Opening Ports on Norton 2002

From: Morgan Sales (msalesDIESPAMMER_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 01/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:39:45 -0000

Lars M. Hansen wrote:
> Unfortunately, the regular "Joe Q. User" doesn't know what traffic to
> allow or deny, they simply want the warning box to go away. That means
> that'll most likely allow traffic that they shouldn't simply as a
> matter
> of inconvenience.
>
> Unless the program provides significant information regarding the
> traffic that it is enquiring about, most regular users aren't going to
> go going to go googling for the answer. Most regular users doesn't
> find
> it reasonable to log in, log out, or even save their work on a network
> server (or anywhere else where it will be backed up), why would anyone
> expect them to find it reasonable to research the traffic that their
> "friendly" computer is obviously initiating?

But in fairness, this is an inadequacy of the user rather that the software.
I'd say that you raise an excellent point that this type of software is
probably not you the average uniformed user. 

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Morgan.
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