Re: norton antivirus and ms firewall
From: Malke (notreally_at_invalid.com)
Date: 08/02/05
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Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 19:22:13 -0700
Shenan Stanley wrote:
> Hal wrote:
>> i am running win xp pro sp2 and have just installed norton antivirus
>> 2005. NAV recommends i use it instead of windows for my default
>> firewall protection. should i turn off the windows firewall and rely
>> just on the norton antivirus, (which checks for worms, trojan
>> horeses, etc by default), or run both?
>
> Then you did not install Norton Antivirus 2005.
> You installed a Norton SUITE.. Because a Firewall and an AntiVirus
> software have little in common.
Actually, that isn't true. NAV 2005 has a firewall called "Internet Worm
Protection" which is basically equivalent to the Windows Firewall; it
is one-way protection. So the answer is it really doesn't matter which
firewall the OP uses in this case since they are basically doing the
same thing.
Malke
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