firewall why?

[chesters1]

i am using nortons firewall ,netscape is fine but if i use int explorer ,it comes up "page cannot be displayed" etc ,if i disable the firewall it works fine :confused: the firewall has all the latest updates but why cannot i use i.e.

[Si...]

You`ve probably got one of the settings either too high or you`ve stopped intenet explorer accessing the net somehow

[chesters1]

i e works perfectly without the firewall ,i.e`s settings are default ,the firewalls settings are high

it works ok with netscape but not ie :confused:

[Dan]

I had that trouble with Mcafees, solution? I gave up and downloaded zonealarm, works a treat!

Dan

[chesters1]

i`l stick with nortons and disable it when i click windows update ,i dont trust mcaffee nor zonealarm

 

[ 08. November 2002, 10:28 PM: Message edited by: chesters1 ]

[loonyl]

chesters1:

i`l stick with nortons and disable it when i click windows update ,i dont trust mcaffee nor zonealarm

Chesters1,

99% of council workers swear by Nortons.

 

Try zonealarm.

 

Liam

[nursejudy]

chesters 1 a norton a day keeps the virus at bay. nurse judy

[Si...]

Chesters1 I use NPFW2003 and these are the setting i use

 

Personal Firewall configuration

Security = on

Personal Firewall = on

intrusion detection = on

privacy control = off (if on you can`t post on forums)

ad blocking = off

 

Firewall configuration

 

firewall=Medium

 

prog control = set everything to ask

 

Hope that helps m8

[Dan]

chesters1:

I dont trust mcaffee nor zonealarm

Just cos I'm not paranoid dooesnt mean there not out to get me!!

 

Zone alarm works fine for me but how do you know whenn any of them arent working effectively?

 

dan

[chesters1]

years ago i used mcaffee at work ,in downloading a file using a faster machine i then put the floppy (ah the days when complete programs could be fitted in these paltry sized disks) in my machine and mcaffee sprang into life saying it had the sampo virus ( a harmless enough virus then ) it then " cleaned " it ,on putting the disk back in and scanning it again no viri were present i took it home and put it in my machine and thunderbite (another virus checker in those days) detected the sampo virus :confused: obviasly mcaffee persuaded itself that it had got rid of the virus when infact it was still there

hence my aversion to mcaffee ,once bitten etc,

zone alarm i havent tried so distrust it anyway