Re: Norton Internet Security - Firewall help needed

ed_lupine_at_yahoo.com
Date: 02/17/04


Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:34:47 -0500

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:42:22 -0800, Markus Kraus <mkr@gmxpro.de> wrote:

>Well, if it worked for you, cool. I had 5 or 6 licenses of NIS 2004
>for my home PCs, and I'm in the process of uninstalling them one by
>one, because for me it was causing nothing but troubles. I purchased
>an Outpost license last nite, it seems to work much smoother, and from
>my initial testing, it seems to catch intrusion attempts more reliably
>than NIS.
>We had NIS as company-wide solution in the firm where I'm employed,
>and they dumped it completely end of last year, because it didn't seem
>to work for our IS professionals either.
>
>Best regards,
>Markus

I had similar woes with NIS2004 and dumped it as well.
It would randomly disable itself, stop updating,give me messages about it being
corrupt somehow and suggesting I re-install.
This is on several different machines, all with completely legal copies.
Some machines did seem to work ok though, but I got sick of it and removed it
(not an easy task BTW) from all systems.



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