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Posted by Volker Birk on October 15, 2005, 10:41 am
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allstatesair@yahoo.com wrote:
> I'm running Norton Personal Firewall 2005. With some programs that ask
> permission, I check Permit All, on all ports, etc.
> But each time the program runs, NPW asks again.
> How come?
Norton was one of the worst "Personal Firewalls" in our test.
It opens useless Popups to the user, it's vulnerable to the SelfDoS
attack, it has features which are even counterproductive like the
filtering of secrets, which leads into quite the opposite, publicizing
secrets, and as every "Personal Firewall" it fails to do anything
secure at all except the packet filtering.
But Norton (the tested release was Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2005)
is the fattest software in this section I saw - it installs 34 directories
with 417 files, and registers 3556 keys with 5934 values. So I'm not
surprised, that with the Norton stuff your PC is quick like a snail.
What a bloat to offer really nothing!
Better use the Windows-Firewall.
Yours,
VB.
--
"Ich bin ein freier Mensch und werde jetzt von meinen Freiheitsrechten
Gebrauch machen - und zwar ausgiebig - natürlich nur in dem Rahmen, den
Otto Schily mir noch zur Verfügung stellt."
Wolfgang Clement am 10.10.05 als Noch-Superminister
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