Re: norton antivirus and ms firewall

From: Shenan Stanley (newshelper_at_gmail.com)
Date: 08/02/05 

Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 21:45:55 -0500

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?

Shenan wrote:
> Then you did not install Norton Antivirus 2005.
> You installed a Norton SUITE.. Because a Firewall and an AntiVirus
> software have little in common.

Malke wrote:
> 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.

Wow - okay - that is frightening in a way.. yet another "firewall" out
there for users.
Thanks for the correction, Malke - something for me to research. =) 

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