norton personal firewall 2003

Discussion in 'Software' started by acejones, Mar 27, 2003.

  1. acejones

    acejones A Different Title

    NPF (with all updates installed) won't let me connect to the internet when enabled. I went through Symantecs online support, but that didn't help. I have pretty much messed with everything, but it still won't work. The default ports are open. It won't even let me log into our content filter/DHCP box locally. However, I can ping our box as well as yahoo.com/.

    I need ideas!

    If you want, I can attach a log.
     
    acejones, Mar 27, 2003
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  2. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Uninstall it :) Is there a place to set to default settings? If not, perhaps it has modified some of your default connection settings. Check your network settings to be sure it has not modified them.

    Otherwise, dont know. Were a bit annoyed with Nortons because it blocks http_referrer, which, in effect is how we hide the file paths so people dont leech our files and cost us money. Other companies, like Zone Alarm, have listened to our complaint that this is unneccesary and removed it by default.

    Anyone using Nortons who cant download, please refer to this:

    http://www.majorgeeks.net/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1178
     
    Major Attitude, Mar 27, 2003
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  3. acejones

    acejones A Different Title

    Thanks MA. I have already uninstalled/reinstalled it, to no avail. The wacky thing is that it worked the first day I had it installed. Then, bam! Quit working. Nothing changed. I'm so frustrated with it. I may be blind, but I didn't see a restore button to restore it back to the way it came. I checked the log to see if there was anything being blocked, but it wasn't very helpful. I ran ipconfig and my network settings are the same.
     
    acejones, Mar 27, 2003
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  4. Kodo

    Kodo SNATCHSQUATCH

    check your hosts file. make sure it's not filled with crap.

    I am very wary of norton's firewall. I've heard more bad than good.
     
    Kodo, Mar 27, 2003
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  5. acejones

    acejones A Different Title

    well, i checked it, and nothing was in it. so I moved it to my desktop and now i got through. so i moved it back to see if i could get through, and BAM! i could. this thing is soooo frickin' weird.

    thanks for your help guys!
     
    acejones, Mar 27, 2003
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