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Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:00 am Post subject:
Norton Internet Security 2005 |
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I bought NIS 2005 because it was free after rebate, and I wanted the
latest Norton anti-virus. Now, it looks like it was worth every penny
that I paid for it. Does anyone know how to shut off/disable Network
Detector, and the useless plug-ins to IE? I have a hardware firewall and
don't need all of the useless features of this bloated, billious piece
of junk product--I only want the anti-virus functions. I have turned off
all of the functionality that I can (i.e., firewall, anti-spam,
intrusion detection, privacy control, etc.), and yet it is still messing
with my browser, and popping up a ridiculous Network Detector box every
time I reconfigure my wireless network or routing settings. I just want
the anti-virus, and I don't want anything else changed in my system! If
there are any Symantec folks listening out there, you need to allow
users to turn off any and all of features that they don't want! I guess
I should have known better than to buy another Symantec product. Maybe
there is a 'trade down' deal from NIS to NAV. |
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abspc
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Sat Jan 15, 2005 3:16 pm Post subject:
Re: Norton Internet Security 2005 |
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nospam@pacbell.net wrote:
| Quote: | I bought NIS 2005 because it was free after rebate, and I wanted the
latest Norton anti-virus. Now, it looks like it was worth every penny
that I paid for it. Does anyone know how to shut off/disable Network
Detector, and the useless plug-ins to IE? I have a hardware firewall and
don't need all of the useless features of this bloated, billious piece
of junk product--I only want the anti-virus functions. I have turned off
all of the functionality that I can (i.e., firewall, anti-spam,
intrusion detection, privacy control, etc.), and yet it is still messing
with my browser, and popping up a ridiculous Network Detector box every
time I reconfigure my wireless network or routing settings. I just want
the anti-virus, and I don't want anything else changed in my system! If
there are any Symantec folks listening out there, you need to allow
users to turn off any and all of features that they don't want! I guess
I should have known better than to buy another Symantec product. Maybe
there is a 'trade down' deal from NIS to NAV.
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i dopn't mean to be rude, but if all you wanted was virus then why in
the hell did you buy nis? now that's really stupid as hell. |
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Guest
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Sat Jan 15, 2005 11:48 pm Post subject:
Re: Norton Internet Security 2005 |
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If you had looked at the first part of my post, you would have read
that I bought it because it was free after rebate. I couldn't find a
free version NAV, and mistakenly assumed that all of the NIS software
would be properly decoupled and installable separately. This is the norm
for well designed software, and was true for many previous Symantec
products that bundled NAV (i.e., prior versions of System Works). If
you don't mean to be rude, why are you calling me stupid? If you can't
answer the question that I have, why bother posting a response?
abspc wrote:
| Quote: | nospam@pacbell.net wrote:
I bought NIS 2005 because it was free after rebate, and I wanted the
latest Norton anti-virus. Now, it looks like it was worth every penny
that I paid for it. Does anyone know how to shut off/disable Network
Detector, and the useless plug-ins to IE? I have a hardware firewall
and don't need all of the useless features of this bloated, billious
piece of junk product--I only want the anti-virus functions. I have
turned off all of the functionality that I can (i.e., firewall,
anti-spam, intrusion detection, privacy control, etc.), and yet it is
still messing with my browser, and popping up a ridiculous Network
Detector box every time I reconfigure my wireless network or routing
settings. I just want the anti-virus, and I don't want anything else
changed in my system! If there are any Symantec folks listening out
there, you need to allow users to turn off any and all of features
that they don't want! I guess I should have known better than to buy
another Symantec product. Maybe there is a 'trade down' deal from NIS
to NAV.
i dopn't mean to be rude, but if all you wanted was virus then why in
the hell did you buy nis? now that's really stupid as hell. |
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Sparkplug
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:16 pm Post subject:
Re: Norton Internet Security 2005 |
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 05:00:11 GMT, <nospam@pacbell.net> wrote:
| Quote: | I bought NIS 2005 because it was free after rebate, and I wanted the
latest Norton anti-virus. Now, it looks like it was worth every penny
that I paid for it. Does anyone know how to shut off/disable Network
Detector, and the useless plug-ins to IE? I have a hardware firewall and
don't need all of the useless features of this bloated, billious piece
of junk product--I only want the anti-virus functions. I have turned off
all of the functionality that I can (i.e., firewall, anti-spam,
intrusion detection, privacy control, etc.), and yet it is still messing
with my browser, and popping up a ridiculous Network Detector box every
time I reconfigure my wireless network or routing settings. I just want
the anti-virus, and I don't want anything else changed in my system! If
there are any Symantec folks listening out there, you need to allow
users to turn off any and all of features that they don't want! I guess
I should have known better than to buy another Symantec product. Maybe
there is a 'trade down' deal from NIS to NAV.
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NIS 2005 is rubbish. Ditch all of it and use ZoneAlarm or Sygate. I have,
and life is now so much easier.
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Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ |
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abspc
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Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:33 pm Post subject:
Re: Norton Internet Security 2005 |
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Sparkplug wrote:
| Quote: | On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 05:00:11 GMT, <nospam@pacbell.net> wrote:
I bought NIS 2005 because it was free after rebate, and I wanted the
latest Norton anti-virus. Now, it looks like it was worth every penny
that I paid for it. Does anyone know how to shut off/disable Network
Detector, and the useless plug-ins to IE? I have a hardware firewall
and don't need all of the useless features of this bloated, billious
piece of junk product--I only want the anti-virus functions. I have
turned off all of the functionality that I can (i.e., firewall,
anti-spam, intrusion detection, privacy control, etc.), and yet it is
still messing with my browser, and popping up a ridiculous Network
Detector box every time I reconfigure my wireless network or routing
settings. I just want the anti-virus, and I don't want anything else
changed in my system! If there are any Symantec folks listening out
there, you need to allow users to turn off any and all of features
that they don't want! I guess I should have known better than to buy
another Symantec product. Maybe there is a 'trade down' deal from NIS
to NAV.
NIS 2005 is rubbish. Ditch all of it and use ZoneAlarm or Sygate. I
have, and life is now so much easier.
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lol, Zone Alarm in fact is much worse in my opinion when regarding
content filtering. Sygate doesn't even have that. NIS works good mostly. |
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Wolfgang Ewert
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Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject:
Re: Norton Internet Security 2005 |
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Hallo abspc, you wrote:
| Quote: | Sparkplug wrote:
NIS 2005 is rubbish....
lol, Zone Alarm in fact is much worse ...
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Conclusion: Don't use any of them ;-)
Thank you
Wolfganf
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Nirgendwo hängt der Schulerfolg so stark von Einkommen und Vorbildung
der Eltern ab wie in D'land. Das dt. Schulsystem versagt bei der
Förderung von Arbeiter- und Migrantenkindern. (dpa/FTD 22.11.04) |
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Thu Jan 20, 2005 8:30 am Post subject:
Re: Norton Internet Security 2005 |
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nospam@pacbell.net wrote:
| Quote: | I bought NIS 2005 because it was free after rebate, and I wanted the
latest Norton anti-virus. Now, it looks like it was worth every penny
that I paid for it. Does anyone know how to shut off/disable Network
Detector, and the useless plug-ins to IE? I have a hardware firewall
and
don't need all of the useless features of this bloated, billious
piece
of junk product--I only want the anti-virus functions. I have turned
off
all of the functionality that I can (i.e., firewall, anti-spam,
intrusion detection, privacy control, etc.), and yet it is still
messing
with my browser, and popping up a ridiculous Network Detector box
every
time I reconfigure my wireless network or routing settings. I just
want
the anti-virus, and I don't want anything else changed in my system!
If
there are any Symantec folks listening out there, you need to allow
users to turn off any and all of features that they don't want! I
guess
I should have known better than to buy another Symantec product.
Maybe
there is a 'trade down' deal from NIS to NAV.
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Have you tried posting to the symantec.* newsgroups yet? Seriously
there isn't a way to disable the parts of NIS a user doesn't want? I'm
in the same boat as you. I got NIS from Amazon for free after rebates
and basically wanted it to replace my soon expiring NAV subscription.
I haven't loaded NIS yet but NAV is already doing its reminder thing to
renew the subscription. Don't need another firewall software. |
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Thu Jan 20, 2005 8:31 am Post subject:
Re: Norton Internet Security 2005 |
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sskbutton@yahoo.com wrote:
| Quote: | nospam@pacbell.net wrote:
I bought NIS 2005 because it was free after rebate, and I wanted the
latest Norton anti-virus. Now, it looks like it was worth every penny
that I paid for it. Does anyone know how to shut off/disable Network
Detector, and the useless plug-ins to IE? I have a hardware firewall
and
don't need all of the useless features of this bloated, billious
piece
of junk product--I only want the anti-virus functions. I have turned
off
all of the functionality that I can (i.e., firewall, anti-spam,
intrusion detection, privacy control, etc.), and yet it is still
messing
with my browser, and popping up a ridiculous Network Detector box
every
time I reconfigure my wireless network or routing settings. I just
want
the anti-virus, and I don't want anything else changed in my system!
If
there are any Symantec folks listening out there, you need to allow
users to turn off any and all of features that they don't want! I
guess
I should have known better than to buy another Symantec product.
Maybe
there is a 'trade down' deal from NIS to NAV.
Have you tried posting to the symantec.* newsgroups yet? Seriously
there isn't a way to disable the parts of NIS a user doesn't want? I'm
in the same boat as you. I got NIS from Amazon for free after rebates
and basically wanted it to replace my soon expiring NAV subscription.
I haven't loaded NIS yet but NAV is already doing its reminder thing to
renew the subscription. Don't need another firewall software.
The first design flaw in the NIS package is that the components are not |
separately *installable*. The second is that even though I have disabled
all of the components but NAV, including the firewall, every time I
reconfigure my network adapters, the Network Detector keeps popping up a
dialog telling me that it has found a new network, and asking me to
classify it. This is a totally useless function if the firewall is
turned off. The purpose is to have a different profile for the
firewall for each network the machine is a node in. But it is
meaningless without the firewall, and should be disabled if the firewall
is disabled. Same thing with the NIS modifications to IE. These should
be unhooked from IE if the NIS privacy and parental controls are
disabled. My recommendation is to look for a 'free after rebate' NAV or
McAffee AV, and remove NIS from your system. If you don't need the other
NIS functions, it will just end up messing up and bogging down your
machine in ways you will not appreciate. |
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Guest
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:21 am Post subject:
Re: Norton Internet Security 2005 |
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nospam@pacbell.net wrote:
| Quote: | sskbutton@yahoo.com wrote:
Have you tried posting to the symantec.* newsgroups yet? Seriously
there isn't a way to disable the parts of NIS a user doesn't want?
I'm
in the same boat as you. I got NIS from Amazon for free after
rebates
and basically wanted it to replace my soon expiring NAV
subscription.
I haven't loaded NIS yet but NAV is already doing its reminder thing
to
renew the subscription. Don't need another firewall software.
The first design flaw in the NIS package is that the components are
not
separately *installable*. The second is that even though I have
disabled
all of the components but NAV, including the firewall, every time I
reconfigure my network adapters, the Network Detector keeps popping
up a
dialog telling me that it has found a new network, and asking me to
classify it. This is a totally useless function if the firewall is
turned off. The purpose is to have a different profile for the
firewall for each network the machine is a node in. But it is
meaningless without the firewall, and should be disabled if the
firewall
is disabled. Same thing with the NIS modifications to IE. These
should
be unhooked from IE if the NIS privacy and parental controls are
disabled. My recommendation is to look for a 'free after rebate' NAV
or
McAffee AV, and remove NIS from your system. If you don't need the
other
NIS functions, it will just end up messing up and bogging down your
machine in ways you will not appreciate.
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I don't use IE much and don't reconfigure my adapter very often so that
part might not be a biggie for me. I might have to load NIS on another
machine and see if it is possible to go through the registry and
prevent some of the unneeded components from loading. Oh well,
tanstaafl really applies in this case, eh? |
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Tony Weiss (Symantec)
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Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:06 am Post subject:
Re: Norton Internet Security 2005 |
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| Quote: | Does anyone know how to shut off/disable Network Detector
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To turn off the Network Detector, click the Configure button for Personal
Firewall. Click the "Locations" tab, and uncheck the "Turn On Network
Detector" box. I hope this helps. Thanks!
Tony Weiss
Symantec |
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