Help !
Since yesterday I am unable to acess Firefox until I turn Norton Firewall off. Nothing has seemingly changed that I,m aware of, can anyone help a computer amature.
Mike

Norton interferes with a lot of things, sounds like you've either got the firewall function of norton configured to block firefox or perhaps some filter isn't working correctly and norton isn't passing throughput to firefox. My money's on the former. Go into firewall settings on norton and allow firefox access to the internet - should fix it.

Better yet, uninstall norton and install avast antivirus instead. It's better, less process heavy and utterly free.

The standard Windows Xp Sp2 firewall is actually pretty good and any case with a plain jane home network using a NAT router the routers built in firewall gives more than enough protection. If you run servers on your home PC and do need a fancy firewall Kerio Version 2.15 is good see http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=keriopf

Generally Norton AV is bad news, it is a major drag on a computers resources, Free AntiVira PE is a better bet http://www.free-av.com/ it is light on resources and I have never found a virus on any computer protected by it.