MikeLR
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| posted on 13/3/08 at 09:54 PM |
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Firefox Norton problem
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
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jlparsons
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| posted on 13/3/08 at 10:05 PM |
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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.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 14/3/08 at 07:31 AM |
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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.
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