[fred]

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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"fred" <fred@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E7D8F1A7-AC5F-42EC-A9EB-3271C3CF29FC@microsoft.com...
> 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

[Ken Blake]

In news:E7D8F1A7-AC5F-42EC-A9EB-3271C3CF29FC@microsoft.com,
fred <fred@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:

> 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.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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[Malke]

Ken Blake wrote:

> In news:E7D8F1A7-AC5F-42EC-A9EB-3271C3CF29FC@microsoft.com,
> fred <fred@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
>
>> 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.

(snippage)

>> 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.
>

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
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