I’ve just had a new PC with XP as the operating system and Norton anti-virus and internet security. It has a personal firewall, which, if enabled, means I am unable to access many links pages on the sites I visit. An example of this is the photographs on Ebay.
It seems I can configure the firewall to allow full access to certain sites of my choosing. The question is, how do I do this? I’m not very computer literate, so, if anyone can explain this to me in the simplest of terms I would be extremely grateful.
Thanks in advance,
kev35
By: munnst - 7th January 2003 at 22:45
RE: Computer Query.
Turn off file and print sharing.
Make sure none of your hard discs are configured as a share.
Then turn off the firewall, you don’t need it, unless you have built your self a webserver of course.
There is no way anyone can gain access to you PC if you do the above. Your at bigger risk from email viruses so make sure you have a good anti virus installed. PC’s have no inbound connections i.e. Telnet, FTP, Apache etc.
Sure the firewall might report to you “someone is running a port scan, you were hit by a malicious ping, xyz tried to access your computer etc”. Let em, they won’t get in. The internet is full of this kind of traffic, it’s unimportant.
Your more likely to find someone has accessed you isp mail account because you picked a password like `fred`. Don’t let em in and they can’t get in!
By: frankvw - 7th January 2003 at 10:40
RE: Computer Query.
I could say RTFM, but this would be rude 😛
I don’t know Norton IS od Personnal Firewall, and don’t use them. So, I’m afraid I can’t help much. Have a look in the helpfile, it should be easy, though.
By: Rabie - 7th January 2003 at 10:06
RE: Computer Query.
frank ? elp ?
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January 6, 2003 at 11:06 pm