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Posted by What's in a Name? on February 11, 2007, 6:19 pm
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>> jewel:
>>> When I disable a NIS2007 function (like phishing filter, or email
>>> scanning for example) the Norton icon on the taskbar displays an
>>> exclamation point, letting me know that my system is not fully
>>> protected. This happens even if I have configured the XP Phishing
>>> filter to be on!.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to tell NIS2007 that since I configured this
>>> function to be off, purposely (and am using the built in XP program
>>> instead) NOT to display this "not protected" insignia all the time?
>>
>> No.
>>
>>> Why doesn't it just display the normal green check mark since I have
>>> purposely configured not to use certain functions?
>>>
>>> Anyone?
>>>
>>> -Frank
>>
>> Norton does not like to relinquesh control to anyone. And just try to
>> uninstall it.It does like that much either.
>>
>> max
>
> Yeah, I did try to uninstall it, so I could to reinstall to fix a
> botched installation. I got caught in an infinite loop (uh... I'll
> finish upon reboot, rebooted, uh... I'll finish upon reboot,
> rebooted, uh... I'll finish upon reboot... etc. etc.). Anyway, I had
> to use the "uninstall magic bullet" from the Symantec site to finally
> get it uninstalled. Then I reinstalled it properly (client had
> screwed it up big time).
>
> Anyway this was not my machine. It was one of my client's machines. He
> bought NIS2007 and I wanted to configure it to be as least obtrusive
> as possible while using built-in OS functions for the things that I
> could. Certainly I could do that, but the damn NIS kept saying that
> the machine was "not fully protected". Just what you want a client to
> see and have them be confused. Bottom line, I let Norton have its way
> (email scanning included!) just to prevent these stupid warning
> messages. What the hell, the client bought it, not me! LOL!
>
> -Frank
Just look at it as job-protection! He'll be back with the machine to
have you fix it again. lol
max
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