Norton Internet Security / Norton AntiVirus

[Diatom]

I see no obvious news on this front - multiple PCs, single identiy, can one use (say) WinLivSync peer2peer connection to keep 2PCs/1user Identity Safe in sync?  (If not, why not?  I use identical login on multiple machines... a shame to delegate the task to insecure Xmarks when NIS-IDS is at one's fingertips)

Has Symantic it's own cloud/sync service for this sort of thing?

Thanks

Diatom

[dbrisendine Norton Fighter]

You can use a removable Thumb drive to store the IDS data instead of having it on the fixed hard drive.  When you move it from machine to machine, the IDS data is available to the user of the machine it is plugged into, if they have NIS2010 installed.  But there is no "cloud" service to keep your personal ID material in outside of hardware in your possession.

[Diatom]

Thanks for reply.  With 3 PCs, 3Macs & 2 iPhones on three networks cross-synching thru various VPN/Hamachi/WLS/B2MM schemes the last thing I want is another thumb drive, there has to be a better way.

Out of curiosity I tried BAK of PC1's .npm directly to a "dump" directory on PC2 via secure Hamachi tunnel (mapped drive across the pseudo-WAN).  Logged into PC2 via LMIP, launched FireFox, clic the NIS-IDS toolbar button to see if there's an "import/restore" button on it - but was stunned to see it fully populated all of a sudden without any explicit direction from me  (this all follows a massive Vista SP1 botch / wipeout /reinstall from scratch, NIS-IDS had lost all brain cells).  I don't for the life of me see how it repopulated:  was it

(a) the act of logging in to the Symantec Fora?

(b) NIS on remote PC near-instantaneously discerned the presence of a .npm & loaded it without query?

(c) Foxmarks/Xmarks somehow connected them?  Must be the most likely answer here.

(d) I had a pre-crash BAK on a Synology RaidBox, pretty much docs & PSTs only, maybe I got lucky & the NIS-IDS data file was in one of the bak'd dirs... and NIS coincidentally-ish dug it up?

(e) NIS discovered the (throroughly botched) "windows.old" file from the catastrophic Vista crash and picked up the pieces all by itself?

 and -

Was that a one-time event or will they stay magically in sync?  

I am delighted bewildered & a touch alarmed...

Diatom

[Diatom]

OK that's what happens at 1AM after a mass-reinstall of my entire life.

Now I look at remote IDS & see not populated / asking if I want to import logins from MSIEx (none exist there, I use FFx exlusively).

Remain bewildered, maybe I inadvertently looked at a local FFox session instead of remote session.

Tired is me.  Tomorrow I'll use "restore" to suck the .npm into NIS-IDS on the remote PC.

D

[dbrisendine Norton Fighter]

The .npm file is just the portable file format for IDS data; it is not the format of the data on the system.  Seems that there is something else here (an old IDS data store that is being read by the program).  The only way NIS would use the .npm data file you "sync'd" over is if you went into the Web Settings menu and Restore Identity Safe Data from the menu.  Identity Safe does not read .npm files directly.