Re: NIS will not let me synchronize the PC Date/Time

Volker Birk wrote:
Patrick E. King <seldom@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am using NIS Ver 8.0.7.1 and I have noticed that it will not let me
synchronize the computer date/time with either of the internet time
servers...windows or nist.
I have tried the faq's at Symantec and googled for info but no results yet.
Can anybody in this group give me advice?

Yes. Remove Norton InSecurity. You probably don't need it. Use the
Windows-Firewall instead.

I'm home user and recently I tested my laptop security since I'm going to travel for a while and I will not carry my NAT router with me. During test I noticed that I have C$ in shared resources, I thought that I had got rid off that hole long time ago, but it was there. I also forgot to reconfigure wireless connection NetBIOS over TCP and file and printer sharing was on. I tried to access to root from remote computer and one thing prevented me to attempt to access to root was that useless ZA who luckily asked me do I want to put new network in a trusted zone. Then I turned ZA off and I used Windows firewall, I tried to access C$ and I got login/password prompt, like I expected it didn't block, I got a lesson and here it is:
There is no good protection for home users, most of us don't even know how to configure wireless connection nor we are aware that C$ exist, there is only protection which at least tries to block and one which not. To an ordinary home user who will just take his laptop and connect to a hotel wi-fi network without reconfiguring anything, that's what most of us do, Windows firewall is useless. ZA will at least put wi-fi network in internet zone and it will try to block something.
So please don't advice us to use Windows firewall, we are not computer geeks who know how to configure OS and applications (we use application control) we don't understand words like NetBIOS (we use firewalls ZA, NIS etc.), we use our computers not knowing how they work. ZA or NIS is built for us not for you, you have Windows firewall and many options in windows registry, leave ZA, NIS etc. to us, we need them. To use Windows firewall we should first learn something about Windows and networks and sometime we are busy people not having time or interest for that.


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