Norton AV denies guest account web access

[Guest]

I am running Windows XP Home edition and my AV software is Norton Internet
Security (Anti-spyware edition) 2005. With N.A.V. running the administrator
account works fine but the "guest" account in Windows cannot access the
internet.
I have been searching the Symantec site for hours and getting the run around.
Any suggestions?

Please & Thanks -

Very Frustrated

 

[R. McCarty]

See this:
http://www.xtremepccentral.com/foru...407244322bed45b524f63aa4f&p=167281#post167281
I can't say if it will work or not but it seems plausible:

 

[Peter Wilkins]

I am running Windows XP Home edition and my AV software is Norton Internet
Security (Anti-spyware edition) 2005. With N.A.V. running the administrator
account works fine but the "guest" account in Windows cannot access the
internet.
I have been searching the Symantec site for hours and getting the run around.
Any suggestions?

Please & Thanks -

Very Frustrated

Do what I did and junk NIS/NAV and any other Symantec product you may
have (except Ghost 2003), turn on the windows firewall and use avast!
AV instead, after first deleting every reference to symantec from your
registry and every symantec file/folder.
You and your computer will be much happier.
I had been a norton/symantec user since JC played halfback for
Jerusalem but every release since then has gotten progressively more
complex, more resource hungry and more finicky. They seem to have no
fixes for the many problems encountered except to uninstall then
reinstall. I just got fed up with doing that, and don't begrudge the
lost 6 months of the latest subscription - it's worth it to be free.

 

[jonah]

I am running Windows XP Home edition and my AV software is Norton Internet
Security (Anti-spyware edition) 2005. With N.A.V. running the administrator
account works fine but the "guest" account in Windows cannot access the
internet.
I have been searching the Symantec site for hours and getting the run around.
Any suggestions?

Please & Thanks -

Very Frustrated

Norton is so full of bugs and bloatware its impossible to say why the
guest account does not work except that as it is a guest account it is
more "limited" than a limited account and there are hundreds of apps
that won't run properly without admin access on windows XP. I will
have a look on a test PC now you have mentioned it and I will be
amazed if it works for me without lots of fiddling.

Meanwhile the advice to get rid of it entirely is the best you will
get, seriously whatever you paid for it it's not worth the frustration
especially when there are several infinately better freeware AV /
Firewall combos available.

Jonah