Help Needed in Firewall config

[Guest]

I have WinXP professional with SP2,
I use Zone Alarm as the default firewall and recently after installing
Norton Antivirus
windows took Norton's Internet Worm Security as the default firewall.
If I run ZOnealarm windows says that running more than 1 firewall might
conflict.

If i disable internet worm protection in the antivirus options and ran the
zone alarm, windows still
shows that more than one firewall is running and might conflict.

If I stop Zone alarm it still takes internet worm protection as firewall
eventhough it is turned off.

Anyone please help me to sort this issue.I need to disable Norton's and
enable Zone Alarm.

 

[Guest]

Maybe not the answer you're looking for, but I would advise the use of
ZoneAlarm or Kerio firewall, and another AV product, for example AVG, NOD32
or Trend. The ones to avoid are Norton and McAfee, mainly because the
additional bloat they include causes problems (as you've just highlighted)

You could have a look and see if it's posisble to uninstall the Norton
'Internet Worm' component; this is probably still loaded into memory even
when not active, hence the message.

 

[Ted Zieglar]

That's a question for Symantec technical support. Only they know if it's
possible to make "internet worm protection" invisible to the Windows
Security Center. If not, you're going to have to choose between NAV and ZA.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

You might try logging on as an administrator and go to services.msc and find
the service for the firewall you want to disable and set the service type to
disabled and stop the service. You may also be able to uninstall the feature
of Norton that you do not want.

Steve

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Yes I tried that too.In msconfig services tab I unchecked Norton Firewall
Monitoring service and unchecked "Internet worm protection" in Norton AV
options,but still it runs.I dont know why..

 

[Steven L Umbach]

You might try uninstalling Norton to see if that fixes the problem. If it
does see if it gives you an option to install only the components that you
want to use.

Steve