Re: Norton Internet Security 2005

nospam_at_pacbell.net
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:02:28 GMT

sskbutton@yahoo.com wrote:

>nospam@pacbell.net wrote:
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>>I bought NIS 2005 because it was free after rebate, and I wanted the
>>latest Norton anti-virus. Now, it looks like it was worth every penny
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>>that I paid for it. Does anyone know how to shut off/disable Network
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>>Detector, and the useless plug-ins to IE? I have a hardware firewall
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>>don't need all of the useless features of this bloated, billious
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>piece
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>>of junk product--I only want the anti-virus functions. I have turned
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>off
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>>all of the functionality that I can (i.e., firewall, anti-spam,
>>intrusion detection, privacy control, etc.), and yet it is still
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>messing
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>>with my browser, and popping up a ridiculous Network Detector box
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>>time I reconfigure my wireless network or routing settings. I just
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>want
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>>the anti-virus, and I don't want anything else changed in my system!
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>>there are any Symantec folks listening out there, you need to allow
>>users to turn off any and all of features that they don't want! I
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>guess
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>>I should have known better than to buy another Symantec product.
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>>there is a 'trade down' deal from NIS to NAV.
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>Have you tried posting to the symantec.* newsgroups yet? Seriously
>there isn't a way to disable the parts of NIS a user doesn't want? I'm
>in the same boat as you. I got NIS from Amazon for free after rebates
>and basically wanted it to replace my soon expiring NAV subscription.
>I haven't loaded NIS yet but NAV is already doing its reminder thing to
>renew the subscription. Don't need another firewall software.
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The first design flaw in the NIS package is that the components are not
separately *installable*. The second is that even though I have disabled
all of the components but NAV, including the firewall, every time I
reconfigure my network adapters, the Network Detector keeps popping up a
dialog telling me that it has found a new network, and asking me to
classify it. This is a totally useless function if the firewall is
turned off. The purpose is to have a different profile for the
firewall for each network the machine is a node in. But it is
meaningless without the firewall, and should be disabled if the firewall
is disabled. Same thing with the NIS modifications to IE. These should
be unhooked from IE if the NIS privacy and parental controls are
disabled. My recommendation is to look for a 'free after rebate' NAV or
McAffee AV, and remove NIS from your system. If you don't need the other
NIS functions, it will just end up messing up and bogging down your
machine in ways you will not appreciate.