Okay. Here's the problem:
Dec. 4th, 2006 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7C-Tec - [Flowing]--- I have an old copy of Norton Internet Seecurity and Norton System Works. I'm talking like 2002/2003 old. It recently (Friday) began giving me problems, when a trojan/worm/virus managed to sneak its way into my desktop. Now, I've destroyed the fucker, slashed and burned affected programs, and all that such like, but I reinstalled Norton, from the Disk I have.
Long story short: When Firewall is up, internet only connects to "Https" sites. You understand my frustration, yes? (The Dresden Dolls - [Necessary Evil]). I've tried reconfiguring the access patterns, I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, again and again, and I've tried pretty much every combination of components there is to try. The simple fact remains: When the Firewall is up, the internet is down.
Now, other that "get a new firewall," who has suggestions, for me? Anyone at all?
Long story short: When Firewall is up, internet only connects to "Https" sites. You understand my frustration, yes? (The Dresden Dolls - [Necessary Evil]). I've tried reconfiguring the access patterns, I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, again and again, and I've tried pretty much every combination of components there is to try. The simple fact remains: When the Firewall is up, the internet is down.
Now, other that "get a new firewall," who has suggestions, for me? Anyone at all?
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Date: 2006-12-05 04:22 am (UTC)Norton Internet protection sucks. Balls. Not the cute kind either. The GUI is sloppy and impossible to make do what you actually want it to do (as you've discovered). Disable all parts of it (other than the worm protection) and get Zone Alarm (http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/1001_cnet_zdnet/zlsSetup_65_737_000_en.exe). Zone Alarm is free, fairly easy to use and one of the best options available. You can even run torrent programs through it.
As far as Virus protection, if you don't have a current and up to date version (i.e. Nortons year long subscription package) it's not only useless, it's slowing down your computer. Update it. Bad news, Norton'll cost ya like forty bucks. Good news, if ya save the box tops you can get twenty bucks off when you renew next year. It's worth it as the Virus definitions update themselves regularly.
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Date: 2006-12-05 04:43 am (UTC)Also, Sygate has a decent firewall too.
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Date: 2006-12-05 11:19 am (UTC)if you're as significantly un-net-savvy as i am it can be hard to know which addresses from your computer going out and which one's essentially knocking on your computer's door that you ought to allow free access. this can leave you wondering whether you should have allowed access or not... problems later. and much like early versions of adaware, there was some extra have to install crap that was useless... but they may have fixed that by now as adaware did too.
the only time i ever got a discernable virus (one i noticed so it must have been bad) was when i was using norton... i currently use mcaffee... which i didnt chose, it came with the new computer and when i had to renew i simply decided that renewal was better than trying to figure out what to chose next. i can say i havent noticed any problems with this system... but much like norton, its expensive. as they all seem to be. you'd think there'd be a govt. susidized program by now to provide poor people with the internet protection they need. :P