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Posted by Larry Jones on December 15, 2004, 5:22 am
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Sparkplug wrote:
> I have installed the above product on top of Norton Internet Security
> Professional 2004 and have had no end of problems.
>
> The process ccApp takes up over 100mb of virtual memory and sometimes
> runs at > 50% CPU. Every few days I have to reboot the machine to make
> mail work again, where previously it would run happily for weeks.
>
> Rebooting sometimes makes it block random ports.
>
> The firewall log doesn't log anything.
>
> The advanced features of the 2004 version have been obliterated.
>
> As an aside: with 2004 (and 2005) I decided to remove all the rules for
> individual programs, so that I could be sure they weren't getting up to
> anything behind my back, and simply create rules for specific port
> access, e.g. outbound access for http, smtp, pop3 and a few others,
> free access on the LAN and a couple of extra ports for ftp to a server
> and dns to the isp. Is that a reasonable thing to do?
>
> Perhaps I should bin Norton and go for something else.
>
This is why I stopped using symantec products last year. No end of
problems. Try Sygate or Zonealarm, much fewer headaches. Been using the
free version of sygate for a year a nd just bought the pro version last
week. Works great and doesn't hog the cpu.
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