What is the difference between a firewall and the Norton Virus Protection? Do you need both?

Answer 1

the firewall serves to prevent other people enter your computer or that installed programs communicate or send information.

the virus protection, serves to prevent your computer to getting infected when downloading, running, installing software, files, etc...

Answer 2

Virus protection protects you from downloading a virus program. A firewall will block someone from trying to take command of your computer. I check the log on my firewall and someone is trying to gain entry about every 10 seconds..mostly from China, a few from Malyasia and Europe, a couple inside the country.

Answer 3

Antivirus finds virus infected files.

Firewalls block ports on your computer and keep programs from accessing the internet without your knowledge.

You need antivirus, BUT Windows firewall is good enough for the typical home machine.

Answer 4

yes you do they do totally different jobs i have norton internet security which has both .the firewall stopos people from hacking into your computer it almost makes you invisible online and the virus protection removes and blocks any virus that is brought to your computer before it is infected

Answer 5

why pay for norton when you can get better ones for free?

download zonealarm firewall and avg virus scanner

Answer 6

Antivirus is exactly that - helps to clean viruses from your system etc.

Firewalls block access to your computer from other systems etc.

Both are recommended, although neither is 100% necessary.

Answer 7

I have norton internet security. it has both and even gets rid of all that adware crap. I like it