OT: POLL - NORTON IS LOVELY ???

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Never had a problem with Symantec products but that's not saying much as I've
only ever used their anti-virus aka NAV.
Regards, ern.
 
Noel Paton said:
Common sense and a little learning ALWAYS works better!!

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I'll remember that the next time I uninstall 3 programs and Win Doctor has me
manually delete 6 dozen shortcuts that lost their targets. Then all those Active
X things Norton Win Doctor takes care of, manually.
C'mon, what other program can help me do stuff like that?
 
Cymbal Man Freq. said:
I'll remember that the next time I uninstall 3 programs and Win Doctor has
me
manually delete 6 dozen shortcuts that lost their targets. Then all those
Active
X things Norton Win Doctor takes care of, manually.
C'mon, what other program can help me do stuff like that?
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Using a program to help is fine - but never accept what it says without
checking!
As an example - running WinDoctor on a system with AOL installed will (try
to) remove a number of things which are essential for AOL to run.
Fortunately, it appears that AOL self-heals on a restart and replaced the
removed items.

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Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
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Yes or No !

There are always some "out there" whose Windows platforms are hovering on
the brink of major software collapse - WHATever is next installed, and of
course that could, (unfortunately for Norton and any other application
software product) - be a Norton product.

regards, Richard
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Off topic here, but...

Not "Lovely" perhaps but it gets the job done for me. I just bought
NIS 2004 on Ebay for $6 plus shipping. THAT part was lovely.
 
...trundle along to http://www.grc.com with your little NAT router, and
click on the "Shields-Up" hyperlink to see just how good your "NAT"
firewalled router is !! :-)
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Okay....With a router and NIS active:


GRC Port Authority Report created on UTC: 2006-01-04 at 10:38:57

Results from scan of ports: 0-1055

0 Ports Open
1 Ports Closed
1055 Ports Stealth
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1056 Ports Tested

NO PORTS were found to be OPEN.

The port found to be CLOSED was: 113

Other than what is listed above, all ports are STEALTH.

TruStealth: FAILED - NOT all tested ports were STEALTH,
- NO unsolicited packets were received,
- NO Ping reply (ICMP Echo) was received.

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I think it'll suffice.
 
Here's mine with NIS 2006 and Linksys router:

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GRC Port Authority Report created on UTC: 2006-01-04 at 15:16:52

Results from scan of ports: 0-1055

0 Ports Open
0 Ports Closed
1056 Ports Stealth
---------------------
1056 Ports Tested

ALL PORTS tested were found to be: STEALTH.

TruStealth: PASSED - ALL tested ports were STEALTH,
- NO unsolicited packets were received,
- NO Ping reply (ICMP Echo) was received.

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Dave said:
Here's mine with NIS 2006 and Linksys router:

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GRC Port Authority Report created on UTC: 2006-01-04 at
15:16:52

Results from scan of ports: 0-1055

0 Ports Open
0 Ports Closed
1056 Ports Stealth
---------------------
1056 Ports Tested

ALL PORTS tested were found to be: STEALTH.

TruStealth: PASSED - ALL tested ports were STEALTH,
- NO unsolicited packets were received,
- NO Ping reply (ICMP Echo) was received.
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With JUST WinXP firewall, my computer had exactly the same
results. Big deal.

Doug
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RJK said:
Yes or No !

There are always some "out there" whose Windows platforms are hovering on the brink of major software collapse - WHATever is next
installed, and of course that could, (unfortunately for Norton and any other application software product) - be a Norton product.
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NO!

BTW, Norton seems lovely for Google:
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2006/01/05/tell-me-its-not-a-software-bundle/
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/01/after_larry_pag.php

Roman
 
Noel Paton said:
Try this one....
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sour...rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-46,GGLG:en&q="norton+****"
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System works - ich!
Retail AV -ich!
Corp AV - me like :>
 
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