How to REALLY turn off the firewall

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The following thread is related: https://community.norton.com/en/forums/norton-360-conflict-reolink-p2p

The Norton firewall is causing connectivity issues. I have literally spent hours trying different rules, configurations, etc. Almost two weeks after posting in this forum and contacting Norton support on Facebook, no possible solutions have been suggested, or questions asked.

To make a long story short: turning off the firewall in the Norton GUI really doesn't fully turn it off. It takes killing the Norton Security process (with anti tamper turned off) to stop the firewall from blocking connections from an essential application I am now using. However, terminating the process does not release Norton's control of the Windows Firewall.

On the other hand, Windows Firewall does respect a rule to allow inbound traffic to the application in question.

I'd like to continue to use Norton, but in conjunction with the Windows Defender firewall. Is there a "secret" way (startup parameter, registry entry, etc.) to really turn off the Norton firewall so that the Windows Firewall to run?

Or do I need to switch to a different product with a firewall that can be configured to allow the s/w to work, or that does allow the Windows firewall to be used?

Thanks,
Martin

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I would have completely agreed until a few minutes ago. I downloaded Bitdefender onto my sandbox system and was able to turn off Bitdefender's firewall / turn on the Windows firewall. (Still an open question is whether rules for Bitdefender's firewall can be set up to allow the application to work.)

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As long as Norton, or any other third party security product is installed on a Windows 10 system, the Defender features are disabled, including the firewall. Just turning off Norton's firewall will not allow Defender's firewall to activate again. 

 

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What do you suggest as a solution?

Thanks,
Martin

 

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If this is related to the other thread, why not just post back there? Did you try the suggestion made by SendOfJive for Network Trust and Device Trust settings in the Norton Firewall General Settings?

 

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We'll try to call attention to your concerns.