Norton Inernet Security suite

[daveleau]

I thought I'd try this program out and see how it worked. i have BID and used ZA until the scare (which seems to be false so I will be going back). This suite comes with a 'firewall'-like prgoram, and add-killer, and internet filtering for parents of internet surfing kids.

I tried it out for a while to see how it did. It blocked quite a few things (gives no specific reasons for blocking things- it blocked 989 items in 3 weeks). I ran shields up and it did well in the Test My Shields portion but had iDent and netbios closed instead of stealthed. Not to good! The add killer is noce, but after hearing Sysopt's reasoning behind the evils of add-killers, i decided to kill this killer after trying out the software. Too bad norton's software is still not up to par with BID or others.

just thought I'd let you guys know what i found from this software. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
Dave

[seti]

I've tried it. My opinion of it is that's it's bloatwear that will be sold at computer superstores by sales people scareing customers. AtGuard was a good program and they added a lot of fluff. When I tested it it passed sheilds up as stealth on everything except the port 113 (ident)scan.

The add blocker is cute. But add blockers were designed to help people with bandwidth problems. Firewalls are targeted at people with broadband connection and the time it takes to load adds isn't noticeable (atleast to me).

Now that ZA has logging (in beta anyway) it's very near a perfect program.

[This message has been edited by seti (edited 04-02-2000).]

[daveleau]

Thanks for reminding me that this is AtGuard. I forgot about that.
Dave