Norton 'left behind'

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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:slight_smile: Hi Vette :

  Like I said in "Reply #6" : "At times, the "info" coming     from the Windows 'Security Center' is NOT reliable ". Would
  encourage you to read the info at :
 www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/internet/sp2_disablefwalerts.mspx .

  AND as important, if not more so, is the info at :

www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/internet/sp2_wscintro.mspx .
On ā€œpage 2ā€ is a diagram showing where you can turn
ā€œOffā€ those ā€œSettingsā€, which I recommend be done .

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Noā€¦ youā€™re baffled by Symantec response :stuck_out_tongue:

If Spiritsongs is right, i.e., if Windows Security Center has a bad detection in this caseā€¦ itā€™s explained.
If not, you need to fully remove NIS ::slight_smile:

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Thanks everyone for trying to assist me in my dilemma.

Just to be clear, NIS program(s) is no where to be found installed anywhere on the harddrive of the computer
BUTā€¦
Security Center must think that there is a firewall from Norton still existing???

Out of curiosity I clicked on the Windows Firewall to be active and when I checked the Security Center it comes up with ā€œAt least ONE of the firewalls installed on this computer is currently ONā€ Further on it states: ā€œNote: two or more firewalls running at the same time can conflict with each otherā€. This seems to indicated also that Security Center is detecting a firewall by Norton and thus indicating that when I activate the Windows Firewall Iā€™m running two???

I think WE ALL can believe that I donā€™t have Norton firewall and that if I activate the Windows Firewall I am actually running only one. Donā€™t we??

So Iā€™ll try not to hung up about this no longer. Iā€™m stuck with this silly indicator from Security Center.

Iā€™m noticing that most of you would use a firewall other than Windows? I am currently using the ā€œhardwareā€ firewall that comes with the NETGEAR router. Any suggestions that will work with my peculiar situation?

Thanks again
Bob Bray

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Yeahā€¦ we want outbound protection and XP one just give us the inbound (and even this, weakā€¦).

Comodo, Kerio, Jetico or ZoneAlarm (all free) in this order is my suggestion :wink:

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:slight_smile: Hi Vette :

 Momentarily back to your HijackThis log ; based on what 
 you have told us, the following should be "fixed" :

O2 - BHO: (no name) - {549B5CA7-4A86-11D7-A4DF-000874180BB3} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {FDD3B846-8D59-4ffb-8758-209B6AD74ACC} - (no file)
O16 - DPF: {01010E00-5E80-11D8-9E86-0007E96C65AE} (SupportSoft SmartIssue) - http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/asa/ctrl/tgctlsi.cab
O16 - DPF: {01012101-5E80-11D8-9E86-0007E96C65AE} (SupportSoft Script Runner Class) - http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/asa/ctrl/tgctlsr.cab
O16 - DPF: {1F2F4C9E-6F09-47BC-970D-3C54734667FE} - http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/asa/ctrl/LSSupCtl.cab
O16 - DPF: {CE28D5D2-60CF-4C7D-9FE8-0F47A3308078} (ActiveDataInfo Class) - http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/asa/ctrl/SymAData.cab
O23 - Service: Automatic LiveUpdate Scheduler - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\ALUSchedulerSvc.exe (file missing)

As I mentioned earlier, your Sun Java is several ā€œUpdatesā€
behind & is a serious security risk; should uninstall it, then
go to www.majorgeeks.com/download4648.html to get the
latest .

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I have trouble with version 8 updateā€¦ I had to downgrade to 7ā€¦
Installation crashed :cry:

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SpiritSong you said according to my log the following had to be fixed. How? Do What? There were several items you listed from my log, just what am I to do/fix???

By the way I have uninstalled the old Java and installed the new Java.

Also I have gone to several magazine web sites and found the the SYGATE ā€œfreeā€ firewall was recommended to try so I am

thanks

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Fix as in tick the fix box in hijackthis to the left of the entry when you have done a hijackthis scan.

Tutorial - HiJackThis Tutorial 1 or HiJackThis Tutorial 2 or HiJackThis Tutorial 3

I would look again for a firewall, firstly those web sites should have also mentioned that Sygate free is a discontinued firewall, no more development. Secondly there is a flaw in sygate (localhost loop back) in that it canā€™t tel what program is using a localhost proxy, it only detects the proxy and if you give that permission, any program that uses the proxy also gets through. So if you go with sygate you wil need to disable the transparent proxy of web shield and manually configure what browsers you to use the proxy.

There are others, Jetico, Sunbelt Kerio, etc. See some firewall tests for comparison, some are freeware but many are paid for versions http://www.firewallleaktester.com/tests.php. Also see http://www.thefreecountry.com/security/firewalls.shtml

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:slight_smile: Hi Vette :

 The "abandoned" Sygate Personal Firewall, which I still use
 AND is still a good firewall ( unless you use a "proxy" ),
 can be downloaded from :
 www.filehippo.com/download_sygate_personal_firewall/ .

 There is an excellent "Setup Guide" at :

www.kotiposti.net/string/SPF_eng/SPFGuide.html .
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I found a solution: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=22994.msg189891#msg189891 8)

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TECH,
Sorry to be so ignorant but I donā€™t have any idea how to disable WMI? I found it under Administrative but saw nothing on how to not have it doing its thing. And then the restā€¦

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Seems the solution does not workā€¦ look at that threadā€¦ :-\ :cry:
Anyway, to disable WMI: Start Menu > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services
There should be buttoms on the toolbar to stop the Serviceā€¦ My Windows is not in English so I canā€™t find the exactly wordsā€¦
Maybe other user could help hereā€¦