Does Inprivate Browsing disable Norton virus protection add ons?

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Hi,

I noticed in the discussions on parental controls and "Inprivate" Browsing in IE 8 that part of the problem of it not working is that by default, all add ons are disabled when someone opens an inprivate browsing session (Norton Toolbar, Safe Web, etc..).  When I looked into it further, I noticed that one of the Symantec Add ons is called "Symantec Intrusion Prevention".  Does this feature get disabled by Inprivate browsing, too, and cause the computer to be less secure?

Thanks

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I am use Windows 7 , Internet Explorer 8 and when I start In-private session , no add-on is disabled.

 

I believe you are still protected

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Hi symuser1,

 

Really good question.  Internet Explorer Help says this:

 

 Using toolbars and extensions in InPrivate

InPrivate doesn't clear any history or information about toolbars or browser extensions that is stored on your computer. To help protect your privacy, Internet Explorer disables all toolbars and extensions by default in an InPrivate Browsing window. If you would prefer, you can do the following:

 

  1. In Internet Explorer, click Tools, and then click Manage Add-ons.
  2. Click Toolbars and extensions, click the toolbar or extension you want to use, and then click Enable.
  3. Click Close.

And, sure enough when you open an InPrivate session the Norton Toolbar vanishes.  Yet when you open Manage  Add-ons, everything is shown as Enabled.  So I don't know what to make of it.   Are you seeing this as well?

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Hi symuser1,

 

Welcome to Norton community Forum.

 

Please follow the below steps to enable Norton Toolbar during InPrivate browsing session of IE8

 

  • Right click on the InPrivate IE8 Window's  menu
  • Uncheck the "Disable Toolbar and Extensions When InPrivate Browsing Starts".

Even if you don't enable Norton Addons in the above way during InPrivate Browsing session, "Symantec Intrusion Prevention" will work in Network layer.

 

Please let me know whether this information is helpful.

 

Regards,

Uma