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Hello,
I have not install NIS 2009 yet, but currectly I have Threatfire (http://www.threatfire.com/) on my computer. Is Threatfire compatible with NIS 2009? or do I have to unstall Threatfire? Do anyone here have both running on there computers? I like Threatfire, and I see it has a extra layer of protection. According to Threatfire, it is compatible with any AV, but I want to make sure NIS 2009 will run smoothly alongside threatfire.
Thanks,
Smokejumper
I used and tried it. I also tried Mamutu which is better then Threatfire. After some testing I found that NIS 2009 covers most of the bases. Keylogging and injections NISS stops. Unless Threatire is on level 5 its worthless. But on level 5 you get a lot of alerts. If you want great protection then use Sandboxie along with NIS. If youdo some testing you will see that Threatfire is just taking up resources instead of doing anything. NIS 2009 comes with Norton Anti-bot which covers HIPS and behavior blocking. Also be sure that Automatic Program Control in NIS firewall is off and Advanced Event monitoring is on so you have full control over firewall discussions. Also turn HeuristicProction up to aggressive.
Here is a great testing site. I tried most of them and NIS does a good job.
Dear Dieselman743,
Thank you for the insightful information. I shall try both SANDBOXIE and MAMUTU. But I believed those aren't FREE. I cannot afford buying another set of software since I have already paid a hefty price for this wonderful program = NORTON INTERNET SECURITY 2009.
I have a router and so I think Threadfire + Router + NIS2009 will keep those pest our of my PC.
Thank you again
Dear Dieselman743 ,
Hi, actually, I love NIS 2008 & 2009 is because they perform QUIETLY. I do not have to maddle with the firewall settings.....this is one area that I had learn a painful lesson from ZONE ALARM FIREWALL.
I rather stick to the default and let NIS work thru the firewalls instead of getting burn with configuring with settings that a non-techie (like me) cannot handle.
P/S :- I looked at the Mamutu & Sandboxie......both good and very secure, but they are FREE.
Thank you again.
Sandboxie is free. Mamutu is not. If you stick with NIS in default settings you will fail most tests. The GRC test will fail especially.
My PC pass the GRC's Port test..... It stealth all my ports. PC Flank also pass the port scanning test....So, far so good.
Yes, the Firewall did not stop access for most firewall test, but, NORTON knows its a test, because it is not malware that is trying to past into my PC....moreover, NIS has SONAR...this will STOP the malware if the Firewall ease to stop it....as explained in PC Magazine reviews
Of course, a lot of people do not agree with Slient Firewall, but there must be reasons why Zone Alarm, Panda, Kaspasky and some others are slowly turning from NOISY to making their Firewall slient, so that users wil not Click OK on all functions. This is a Smart Firewall....are the thing of the future.
Thank you
Thanks everyone. But a special thanks go out to Dieselman743 for those helpful tips.
I have install NIS 2009, and I am loving it. I amazed how light and fast the program is. I used to hate Norton, but Symantec has really outdone it with this version. There were some problems, like NIS 2009 will take a long time to load on startup even with "Early Load" on, but I quickly found out that it was not NIS 2009 problem; I had some unnecessary programs starting up when Windows start that was delaying everything.
Thanks Symantec! Don't let all these postive ratings get into your head though. They still more improvements that need to made, and I would like to see some features in the next version, but great Job so far! :)
what is meant by
Slient Firewall?
Silent Firewall are firewalls that do not pop up asking users to click yes or no when a program is trying to access the internet. Because, some Non-Techie users (like me), may just like YES to all pop up, because, almost all Pop up are rather technical and users may not be able to understand what it does and click YES, this may be dangerous as users may click on some malicious programs. Of course, not all are like me. But I feel that the future of firewalls should be silent. Thank you
Silent Mode...
It allows everything for a peroid of time.
Josh
Josh, you need to read what Sea_Monster wrote.
When NIS 2009 is set to the default mode of Automatic Program Control being on you will fail most leak test. In this mode is makes all decisions for you. Good or bad. Try the GRC Leak test and you will see. With it on it will fail . With it off you get an alert that allows you to block it. Norton is set at a default setting for newbie’s and click happy people.Anyone who want full control of what your firewall is doing should select it to off. Also when its off all the other options such as keylogging are active.
Sea Monster I never said the GRC Shields Up test. Any firewall can pass that. I said the GRC Leak test.
Sea_Monster wrote:
Silent Firewall are firewalls that do not pop up asking users to click yes or no when a program is trying to access the internet. Because, some Non-Techie users (like me), may just like YES to all pop up, because, almost all Pop up are rather technical and users may not be able to understand what it does and click YES, this may be dangerous as users may click on some malicious programs. Of course, not all are like me. But I feel that the future of firewalls should be silent. Thank you
I see what you mean, but I believe we still need to have a choice. I for one won't want any program to make the decision for me
I see what you mean, but I believe we still need to have a choice. I for one won't want any program to make the decision for me.
Stu,
I know exactly where you are coming for. I share the following with you in that light.
I never felt comfortable letting software decide what was safe and what wasn't. My take was that humans design the software and most of them weren't as bright as I was (this was years ago). Also, I knew that no software could protect me against a virus that hadn't been identified yet. I loved the idea of heuristics and wanted to see anything that was questionable.
Boy, did I lose my social life then.
So many questions, so few answers. I found myself making guesses on the wing. Do I trust the maker of this software? Do I really trust them?
And then, after years of getting ulcers worrying about my decisions, I discovered something. My wife's harddrive died. We thought it was a virus and all my responses and decisions at that point were based on that assumption.
So I made sure we hadn't lost any data. Nope, we hadn't. What hadn't already been backed up was easily offloaded from the HD by making it a slave. I changed log-ons and passwords at important accounts -- there weren't that many. I lost no email, nothing, other than time, and not that much in the way of time.
Then it became clear. If you are doing all the right things, then viruses and worms just aren't that important. My involvement with it all this -- beta testing and then this site -- is for the fun and education (it's great). But if you keep your computer properly backed up -- important data offloaded on a regular basis, private stuff saved offsite, observe common sense security measures, make regular surveys of your accounts for unexpected actions, etc -- then you can survive almost any virus attack in the world. Totally cost in time will be about 2 to 4 hours. Now, I can't convince my clients to do what they should (you know the saying, you can lead an a ss to water but you can't make it think), so that gives me clients. However, they certainly are not going to benefit from being asked to make a decision about every registry modification, every online access through whichever port.
I must say, my own life became much simpler at that point.
p.s. I hope whoever designs security is not the worse who makes censoring decisions. The word spelled ay ess ess is not a rude word. It connotes an entire species of animal, which they had any brains would take umbrage at being identified with a body part. I will see if I can somehow restore the bowdlerized word above in the text that was replaced with -- ghua -- a **bleep**.
LOng store I see. But I understand what you mean. And that's exactly the reason why I want to have the choice. I don't want the product to make the choices for me, but when I'm out on a business trip for couple of days and my wife is the only person behind my machine than I want Norton to make the decisions for her.
Hi, smokejumper,
I had been used NIS2008 & now I am using NIS 2009 together with ThreatFire and they seems to be working well.
No problems or conflicts whatsoever.
Thank you