Norton Internet Security / Norton AntiVirus

[markcc]

I'm trialing NIS 2009.  I'm used to other firewall programs & am trying to understand this firewall.  Is their a way to do the following:

1) See what programs are connected to the internet at any given time?

2) Stop a process from accessing the internet (Explorer.exe) for example.  That shows up in the history.

[Floating_Red]

02. If you click on Settings on the Internet sub-heading and go down to Smart Firewall, Program Control, you can Block that Program.  Before you Block this Program, make a note of what it is at, e.g. Allow; when you are un-Blocking it, it should be put back to what it was before you Blocked it, e.g. Allow.

Message Edited by Floating_Red on 09-26-2008 11:01 PM

[reese_anschultz]

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markcc wrote:

I'm trialing NIS 2009.  I'm used to other firewall programs & am trying to understand this firewall.  Is their a way to do the following:

1) See what programs are connected to the internet at any given time?

2) Stop a process from accessing the internet (Explorer.exe) for example.  That shows up in the history.

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The 2009 products do not have a way to see which programs are currently connected but you can always run "netstat -b" from any command prompt to get that information from the operating system.

[Stu]

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reese_anschultz wrote:

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markcc wrote:

I'm trialing NIS 2009.  I'm used to other firewall programs & am trying to understand this firewall.  Is their a way to do the following:

1) See what programs are connected to the internet at any given time?

2) Stop a process from accessing the internet (Explorer.exe) for example.  That shows up in the history.

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The 2009 products do not have a way to see which programs are currently connected but you can always run "netstat -b" from any command prompt to get that information from the operating system.

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Will this be possible in any future builds?

I believe a well performing firewall will be more and more important 

[markcc]

Thanks for your answers guy's.  Ii need to decide if I'm going to use Online Armor with NAV 2009 or use NIS without Online Armor. 

I will need to test NAV with my firewall to see if the two get along!

[Floating_Red]

I would go with N.I.S. 2009.

Norton AntiVirus 2009 has no Firewall; Previous Versions do.

[markcc]

Yes I understand that NAV does not have a firewall.  I would use my current firewall (Online Armor) with NAV.