Hey! I'm just about to instal norton internet security 2007. however, i'm told that the 2-way firewall included in this package will block incoming e-mails from servers such as aol.com.
My friend is in the USA and we e-mail regularly during the week. So is it true that my security package will block any e-mail she sends to me? I'm with hotmail.co.uk. And more importantly, can anyone show me how to configure it so we can continue writing each other? It's v. important cos i won't see her til Christmas!
2006-11-02 13:25:18 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
The best thing to do is remove it !
It takes up so much CPU speed and memory.
Try AVG it seems so much better
2006-11-02 13:34:40 · answer #1 · answered by istoke 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-23 11:48:16 · answer #2 · answered by Isabel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do yourself a real big favor so that you can talk with your friend in the United States.
Nortons has always been the very worse junk out there in the market and each an every passing year they keep getting worse. (One would think with they would evolve from all their bad technology). These so called suites are even worse. No one security can be everything to everybody. You really need seperate state of the art technology for each area of protection.
Biggest resource hog of any antiviurs system, next to McAfee, and it is rare if it will ever find a virus. The only real thing that Nortons has become an expert at destroying your system.
Wait till you install and then decide that it was a really big mistake, and you go to remove.. All hell is going to break out, because the add/remove will make you thing that Nortons has been removed from your system.
The big surprise is that Nortons will leave atleast 350 fragments glued to all of your files and folders. Plus hidden all over your system. These fragments will cause serious conflict to your system. Especially since you can only run one antivirus. You can run three or four antispyware without conflict. Not with an antivirus.
If you have not paid for it take it back and request a credit or refund.
Many of the free versions are far superior to Nortons.
http://www.avast.com Excellent state of the art technology that is free. One of the very best background scanners, that will catch any virus in real time and destroy the virus, before it enters your system. Updates, two or three times per day.
Their corporate version is the same software, they just make corporate pay.
Avast is my computers an I have not had one virus in over nine years. Plus there is no conflict with any other malware programs like A2Squared v2 or Ewido, from Germany, that was purchased by "AVG", out of Prague this year. A2Squared is out of Austria.
http://www.emsisoft.com and http://www.ewido.net
Excellent firewall: ZoneAlarm, http://ww.zonealarm.com Updates daily and you get an automatic notice when all new version are available for download. And zonealarm is free for their home personal use version.
Clinical Psychiatrist, France
(I use the three above without any conflict and they are free and excellent technology.
2006-11-02 13:51:56 · answer #3 · answered by MINDDOCTOR 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NIS will not stop you using AOL and emailing anyone or recieving from Hotmail accounts. This answer is from a PC with NIS installed and with Yahoo running from the AOL browser Window. Just load NIS with AOL running. Remember to turn of the Windows Firewall when prompted and to configue NIS to run auto updates. I have run NIS for years without any problem and have never had a single problem. If you run AOL emails get checked before you get them and anything thats nasty gets stripped. NIS will catch anything else. As soon as its loaded run Liveupdate to get all the current database updates and run a Full Scan ( not a Quick Scan ) May you havfe many hours of Virus free use of the Internate. Good Luck.
2006-11-02 13:51:08 · answer #4 · answered by Mick the access man 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have Norton security (having asked around, decided it was the best) and I have no problem using e-mail. I think you'll be fine. Better to be safe than sorry, if one e-mail provider doesn't work you can change it, stick with Norton (I hope).
2006-11-02 13:49:59 · answer #5 · answered by fidget 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would you want to buy any kind of 'Firewall' when Windows XP SP2 has one already built in, and I read that they are about to launch a new Anti Virus package.
If you can't wait then AVG or AVAST are both free Anti Virus programmes and self upload new data daily. -- works for me...
2006-11-02 23:15:37 · answer #6 · answered by Fred B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i know when i use yahoo mess i gotta disable the norton security or it wont let me sign in.i wouldnt use email threw outlook anyway cause although u might delete ur email it still can be found on ur pc,but if you were to use a yahoo email it wont be that easy to find it at all.
2006-11-02 13:29:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it's true
2006-11-02 14:51:01 · answer #8 · answered by weng 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋