Network Blocked by Norton Firewall

Question

Beware that there is a third party firewall running on XP Professional besides the native firewall. It will block networking with all computers until it is configured. Naturally this is not documented and is a new feature of Norton. Ugh.   When you are completely exasperated and call Dell for help, they will tell you that you did not pay for software support which costs more money. Dell wants to be paid to fix problems that they create -- what a wonderful approach to generating revenue.

europa303 · Answer

If you have Norton Internet Security on your computer than of course there is an additional firewall.  Either turn it off and use Windows firewall or vice versa, but do not run both at the same time.  As Norton controls incoming and outgoing traffic and Windows firewall doesn't, it is a much safer program, but as you have learned, it does require a bit of tweaking when each running program asks for permission to connect and you do have to allow it or not.

klbf · Answer

i would rather have it set to block network connections until configured to stop potential vunerable hacks... atleast thats what i have set up with outpost pro on my network

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Network Blocked by Norton Firewall

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