Nehmo
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Tue Dec 13, 2005 11:23 am Post subject:
Symantec Firewall Blocking Practally Everything, Why? |
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Windows XP Home (SP1)
Symantec Client Firewall Version 8.6.2.133 (came with anti-virus
10.0.2.2000)
Security is On
Client Firewall is On
Intrusion Protection is Off
Privacy Control is Off
Ad Blocking is Off
The machine was functioning fine using ZA firewall, Microsoft Windows
Defender (Beta) anti-spyware, and AVG anti-virus (all free versions).
But I get tired of the same old programs running year on end; maybe I'm
missing out on something. Actually, I haven't been running MS Defender
for long, but you get the idea.
After reading the spyware shootout:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/reviews/software/security/0,39023452,39225147-14,00.htm
And the Slashdot response:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/05/1152204&tid=172&tid=218
I liked the idea of anti-spyware and anti-virus combined. Why scan your
computer twice? Symantec combines them and also did the best in
detection in the competition. The Symantec package comes with a firewall
(SCF) too. So I figured I might as well run that and give ZA a break.
I blocked my old programs from starting up at start-up but I still have
them. And of course I could revert, but I want to figure out what's
going on with Symantec Client Firewall.
Everything worked for a day or so. Then I awoke to find SCF blocking
browser web traffic for practically all sites. I by chance discovered I
could get to https://www.disasteraid.fema.gov/ (In FireFox, Reload
(override cache) Ctrl + F5 gets the page, so I'm not getting it from the
cache) I don't know what makes that one different. (Maybe it's the
https? I'm going to research that, but I want to post this first.) Email
and news work okay too. I can ping any site via the CMD prompt without
trouble too.
When I disable the SCF, I can connect normally with browsers. That's how
I'm operating now except I have XP's ICF going.
So how can I figure out what's wrong with SCF? They don't have a forum
as I can see (is there one?). At least ZA has a good forum. A question
never goes unanswered there.
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