Re: xp firewall help

From: hihar (hihar_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/02/05

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    Firstly let me apoligize about cross posting, I was a little confused
    initially on where to post. Essentialy my point is this:

    If I restart the laptop something shuts off the Windows Fire wall and
    disable xp's security center alert notifications.
    I can manualy turn on the windows firewall but it will not stay on after the
    next reboot.
    Therefore if I do not enable the Norton Personal Firewall feature I
    essentially have no protection but more importan neither Norton or Windows
    displays any kind of notice to that effect.
    Of course if I turn on The Norton Personal Firewall option then I have a
    firewall but as we all know at somewhat of a price resource wise.
    I will look around I heard AVG is pretty good. Thanks for all your advice
    and knowledge.
    Hihar
    If I enable Nortons personal firewall option then that becomes the default
    firewall
    is off either because Nortons configuration or

    "Malke" wrote:

    > hihar wrote:
    >
    > > I could do that but why doesnt norton alert me that I have turned of
    > > its firewall after starting?
    > > Since norton turns off the windows firewall and coresponding alerts
    > > (by virtue of its activation) it would seem that norton would scream
    > > that no firewall is on after startup....wouldnt it?
    > >
    > > It seems like virus behavior to me.
    >
    > So you are saying that you disabled the Norton Internet Worm Protection
    > but you now can't enable the Windows Firewall? Check with Symantec tech
    > support or get yourself a better antivirus that doesn't interfere with
    > what you want to do. It doesn't particularly sound to me like you have
    > a virus; it sounds like Norton is living up to its reputation of being
    > a really sucky program.
    >
    > Malke
    > --
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