Re: norton antivirus and ms firewall

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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 20:58:01 -0700

Malke, you are correct. The product I installed is the antivirus application
only, not the suite. You are further correct in pointing out it's
"anti-worm, etc" capability, which, incidently, was in the 2004 edition,
also. I don't recall it being in earlier editions, but I may be wrong. The
thrust of my question was whether a) norton,s was better than ms's firewall,
and b) if one had any features that were noteworthy that the other didn't.
You seemed to cover it well. Do you, or anyone else out there, think one is
better than the other
Thanks, Hal

"Malke" wrote:

> 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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