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Symantec kills off free Sygate firewall
News One month after closing the Sygate Technologies takeover, Symantec is cutting the Sygate Personal Firewall products because of overlap with the Norton Personal Firewall. After looking at the Sygate Personal Firewall technology we decided to...
[November 29, 2005, 8:25]
Symantec arms against phishers
News The 2005 upgrades apply to versions of the company's products for consumers and small businesses: Norton AntiVirus, Norton Personal Firewall, Norton AntiSpam and Norton Internet Security. Norton Personal Firewall, meanwhile, will now feature...
[August 17, 2004, 16:25]
Personal firewalls could leak private info
News Tom Powledge, group product manager of Symantec's Norton Internet Security, agreed, saying that while the company will investigate the issue, it has always advised its customers to use the personal firewall in conjunction with antivirus software.
[November 12, 2001, 10:36]
Norton's 2005 security line-up review
Reviews Norton Personal Firewall 2005 Next year's Norton Personal Firewall includes a privacy protection feature designed to keep your credit card information safe on your hard drive, not circulating on the Internet without your permission.
[August 18, 2004, 16:45]
ZoneAlarm Pro 4.0 review
Reviews Best of all, during installation you can also upgrade to 4.0 from previous versions of ZoneAlarm without losing your custom settings -- a skill that Symantec's Norton Internet Security (and the firewall it relies on, Norton Personal Firewall...
[June 13, 2003, 14:23]
Norton Internet Security 2004 review
Reviews Norton Internet Security 2004 bundles Norton AntiVirus and Norton Personal Firewall with Norton AntiSpam, then throws in additional Web filtering tools and privacy and parental controls. While Norton AntiVirus and Personal Firewall are the heart of...
[November 21, 2003, 8:05]
Norton Internet Security 2002 review
Reviews Since it bundles a ton of tools under one roof, NIS 2002 is, strictly speaking, a suite, but its core component is Norton Personal Firewall (also available separately for £29.65 inc. NIS 2002 relies on Norton Alert Tracker (as did NIS 2001) to warn...
[January 16, 2002, 23:00]
Norton Internet Security 2003 review
Reviews A personal firewall may be its backbone, but NIS 2003 also includes the full version of Norton AntiVirus 2003, as well as tools that block pop-ups, pop-unders, banner ads, unwanted cookies, JavaScripts, ActiveX Controls and even outgoing personal...
[October 16, 2002, 10:53]
Symantec slams the door on Live Update flaw
Talkback With Norton Personal firewall, here's how to do it: Open Norton Personal Firewall They provided an "AutoFix" software for those who use Norton Firewall, but I was unable to install it. I used to have Norton AntiVirus, and for some reason it...
[April 22, 2006, 19:12]
Home PC users wake up to need for firewalls
News The online retailer announced on Monday that sales of Norton AntiVirus 2001 jumped 112 percent in one week to the No.spot on both the Amazon.com software prepackaged and download lists in late July. On Tuesday, Symantec announced the latest release...
[August 29, 2001, 8:59]
ZoneAlarm Pro 5.5 review
Reviews Overall, the experience is much friendlier than that of Norton Personal Firewall or McAfee Personal Firewall Plus. ZoneAlarm Pro also enhances its automatic protection against advanced hacking techniques, with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS...
[November 12, 2004, 8:10]
Security for your business review
Reviews For complete protection, you should consider adding a software-based firewall such as Symantec's Norton Personal Firewall, Zone Labs' ZoneAlarm or ZoneAlarm Pro, or McAfee's Personal Firewall Plus. McAfee VirusScan and Symantec's Norton AntiVirus...
[June 11, 2004, 9:35]
Why you should ditch Norton AntiVirus review
Reviews As with Norton AntiVirus, if you want a firewall with your McAfee antivirus program, you'll have to shell out £29.99 for McAfee Personal Firewall Plus or pay more for the McAfee Internet Security suite.
[November 8, 2004, 13:23]
McAfee Internet Security 4.0 review
Reviews Like its biggest competitor Norton Internet Security 2002 (NIS 2002), MIS 4.0 sets all defences to medium-high settings by default. MIS 4.0's new interface, which looks a bit like a Web browser (and a lot like Symantec's Norton products), gathers...
[January 16, 2002, 23:00]
PC-cillin Internet Security 12 review
Reviews In comparison, VirusScan no longer includes a firewall, and Norton AntiVirus, which never included a firewall, comes instead with a limited port-blocking technology that proved not as secure as a full-strength firewall in ShieldsUp testing.
[November 1, 2004, 9:59]
ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 6.0 review
Reviews And the ZoneAlarm forums are active, with users willing to answer your questions -- something that neither Norton nor McAfee offer. By comparison, renewing subscriptions to McAfee Internet Security suites costs £23, while Norton costs £17.
[July 25, 2005, 9:05]
Symantec Norton Internet Security
Downloads Norton Personal Firewall hides your Mac from hackers and helps you find and eliminate vulnerabilities. Norton AntiVirus"the world's most trusted antivirus software for Macintosh systems*"removes viruses automatically.
[June 5, 2003, 8:00]
Symantec patches four critical firewall flaws
Talkback the sndmon is a component of Norton Firewall and it crashes when you have an older version of LiveUpdate. Click on the Personal Firewall and it will tell you to download a newer version of LiveUpdate.
[May 14, 2004, 21:24]
Symantec patches four critical firewall flaws
Talkback I also had problems with the glacial speed after updating Norton Personal Firewall on Friday. Symantec Tech support in the UK (after 40 minutes awaiting an agent to answer) admitted that it was a bad update and the solution was to uninstall...
[May 24, 2004, 16:13]
Trojan horse found responsible for child porn
Talkback I use both Norton Antivirus and Norton Personal Firewall. No security system is perfect (that includes Linux, whose users might try to make you think otherwise), but a system that is properly protected with an antivirus program, a firewall and kept...
[August 4, 2003, 4:38]
