norton 2005

Norton 2005 now includes internet worm protection. It also disables the xp sp2 firewall in place of this new variable but is this enough ??? Or should another firewall say like zonealarm be installed ???

Worm protection doesnt necessairy protect against a hacker seeing your connection, etc.

 

Hello gghartman,

Worm protection doesnt necessairy protect against a hacker seeing your connection, etc.

True.

What a Firewall does is block unsolicited intrusions. If this is NAV2005, it doesn't have a firewall function, I would either re-enable XP's or get one.

Thinking about you're decription "Norton 2005 ". Is this NAV2005 the AV or is this NIS2005 security suite or NPF2005 the firewall?

Regards - Charles

 

I totally agree as to what a firewall does but when it replaced the security firewall with the internet worm protection it confused me.

Its the nav2005 just the new antivirus 2005.

Thats what I thought but when I saw it take over the firewall setting I thought maybe they were giving a freeby in the new version but then why would they still be offering the 2005 firewall.

Think I will start using either sygate or zonealarm the freebies for added protection for my clients. Most of my clients dont want the added expense so the freebies are my only option when protecting their machines.

 

I just worked on a computer with NIS 2005 installed. It tried to kill the XP firewall, and warned of the dangers of running both at the same time. I enabled the XP firewall again, and the user has had no problems (it's been 2 weeks or so) Norton 05 is fancy, isn't it? I'm glad they left the GUI similar to the past versions, or I would have had a tough time with it, and I am very comfortable with the intricacies of Norton. I may even update to it...one of these days...

Johanna

 

Johanna

i can understand the internet security doing that and personally i would let it take over that function instead of xp sp2's firewall. nis to me is a little easier to configure than is xp's firewall.

last week i rebuilt a machine and upgraded to xp sp2 and the xp firewall no matter what i did preventing me from getting clients email. could not for the life of me figure out why. disable it and installed the free za and had no problems whatsoever.