Norton 2005 Firewall comments

[Guest]

Thanks to those who responded to my question on July 7th on Norton
Anti-Virus 2005 acking as a firewall. There seems to be a variety of opinons
on that but Norton has since then assured me that their 2005 program does
indeed act as a firewall as well as an Anti-Virus software and unlike Windows
XP's firewall it monitors the behavior of outgoing network traffic. The
program did ask me if I wanted the "worm" feature and I agreed and it did
turn off the windows firewall to avoid conflict. I asked about installing
ZoneAlarm as well and was told there was no need to do that and it might also
conflict with Norton. I have always trusted Norton (actually more than
Microsoft) so we'll see ...
Thanks again,

fred

 

[Richard Urban]

I have customers (quite a few actually) who are running Norton AntiVirus
2005 along with the latest version of ZoneAlarm without any problems.

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Regards,

Richard Urban

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

 

[Ken Blake]

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Thanks to those who responded to my question on July 7th on
Norton
Anti-Virus 2005 acking as a firewall. There seems to be a
variety of
opinons on that but Norton has since then assured me that their
2005
program does indeed act as a firewall as well as an Anti-Virus
software and unlike Windows XP's firewall it monitors the
behavior of
outgoing network traffic.

I'm afraid you've misunderstood them. No version of Norton
Anti-Virus acts as or includes a firewall. However, the larger
package, Norton Internet Security, includes both Norton
Anti-Virus and Norton Personal Firewall.

The program did ask me if I wanted the
"worm" feature and I agreed and it did turn off the windows
firewall
to avoid conflict.

Then it would appear that you are running not just Norton
Anti-Virus, but also Norton Personal Firewall, as part of Norton
Internet Security.

I asked about installing ZoneAlarm as well and was
told there was no need to do that and it might also conflict
with
Norton.

Correct. Assuming that you're running Norton Personal Firewall,
you should not also run ZoneAlarm.

I have always trusted Norton (actually more than Microsoft)
so we'll see ...

Many folks here will strongly disagree, and feel that your trust
in Norton is very much misplaced.

 

[Malke]

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I'm afraid you've misunderstood them. No version of Norton
Anti-Virus acts as or includes a firewall. However, the larger
package, Norton Internet Security, includes both Norton
Anti-Virus and Norton Personal Firewall.
(snippage)



Many folks here will strongly disagree, and feel that your trust
in Norton is very much misplaced.

Just a note to add to Bruce's comments - Norton Antivirus 2005 includes
something called "Internet Worm Blocking" which is a simple firewall
just like the Windows Firewall that comes with XP Service Pack 2.
Certainly Zonealarm is a more full-featured firewall than either NAV
2005's Internet Worm Blocking and the Windows Firewall. If you are
comfortable configuring a firewall, the better choice of the three
firewalls is Zonealarm.

I'm completely in agreement with Bruce that I wouldn't trust Norton at
all. To put it bluntly, I think the last good av program they wrote was
NAV 2003 and even that was fragile. NAV 2004 and 2005 suck.

Malke