Norton Vulnerability Protection is disabled

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Running Win 8.1 and IE11.How can I enable it?

Here is the info supplied by Windows:

 

Name:                   Norton Vulnerability Protection
Publisher:              Symantec Corporation
Type:                   Browser Helper Object
Architecture:           32-bit
Version:                12.0.1.0
File date:              ‎Saturday, ‎September ‎28, ‎2013, ‏‎9:46 PM
Date last accessed:     ‎Today, ‎December ‎18, ‎2013, ‏‎2 hours ago
Class ID:               {6D53EC84-6AAE-4787-AEEE-F4628F01010C}
Use count:              865
Block count:            472
File:                   ipsbho.dll
Folder:                 C:\Program Files (x86)\Norton Internet Security\Engine\21.1.0.18\IPS

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Hi FiOS-Dave,

 

There is at present an incompatibility issue between NVP (Norton Vulnerability Protection) and EPM ( Enhanced Protection mode) in IE11, which Norton are working to fix. The temporary solution is to disable EPM in IE11.

Please see Tony_Weiss' post here.

 

Hope that helps.

 

 

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Hi FiOS-Dave

Check out this link click here.

 

 

ATB

 

intesec

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intesec wrote:

Hi FiOS-Dave

Check out this link click here.

 

 

ATB

 

intesec

Intesec,

FiOS-Dave's problem is not with NVP in Firefox, subject of your link.

The user has instead a problem regarding NVP not working in Internet Explorer 11, caused by EPM... please have a look at the link I gave in my above post.

 

 

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Hi Rainbow_2

My link is to a thread with a header saying, mystery patch, your link refers to Microsoft.  NVP has issues with firefox, chrome and IE, could one patch contain all the data to solve all the browsers above?

 

 

ATB

 

intesec

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intesec wrote:
NVP has issues with firefox, chrome and IE, could one patch contain all the data to solve all the browsers above?

Hi intesec:

 

I'm not aware of any NVP issues with the latest versions of Firefox (my default browser) or Chrome. I think Rainbow_2 is correct that the conflict with the NVP add-on is confined to IE11 and that NVP can be re-enabled by ensuring that Enhanced Protected Mode is disabled in IE11 (see avjohnnie's screenshot here), re-booting, and then turning the NVP extension on again (see instructions here) while Symantec is working on a permanent fix.

 

As far as I know, the "mystery patch" for the NVP v. 12.0.4.5-1 extension for Firefox mentioned here (delivered 14-Dec-2013) was a regular update for the list of unpatched security holes (vulnerabilities) in operating systems, applications, browsers, and browser plug-ins that Vulnerability Protection guards against.  If you click on the Vulnerability Protection link on the Advanced Window of the NIS GUI you can see the latest list of software security holes that you are protected from.

 

NIS 2013 Vulnerability Protection.jpg

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MS Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 * Firefox 26.0 * IE 9.0 * NIS 2013 v. 20.4.0.40
HP Pavilion dv6835ca, Intel Core2Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83 GHz, 3.0 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

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Also please note, the Vulnerability Protection tab is not now listed in the UI of v 21.1.0.18.

 

It's disappeared, presumably as part of Symantec's intention to simplify things !......:smileyhappy:

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F4E wrote:

 

Also please note, the Vulnerability Protection tab is not now listed in the UI of v 21.1.0.18.

Hi F4E:

 

Thanks for passing that on.  I found a list of vulnerabilites here on the Symantec Security Response site so I guess that will have to do when I update to NIS 21.x (2014).

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MS Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 * Firefox 26.0 * IE 9.0 * NIS 2013 v. 20.4.0.40
HP Pavilion dv6835ca, Intel Core2Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83 GHz, 3.0 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

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Hi, Imacri ! There have been a few features removed in v21. Good thing, or bad thing ? For you to decide, I guess !...:smileyhappy:

 

Works fine, for me on Windows 7.

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F4E wrote:

 

Also please note, the Vulnerability Protection tab is not now listed in the UI of v 21.1.0.18.

 

It's disappeared, presumably as part of Symantec's intention to simplify things !......:smileyhappy:

Based on my post here:

 

http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Norton/IS-THIS-A-LEGITIMATE-WARNING-FROM-THE-NORTON-TEAM-IF-YES-WHAT-DO/m-p/905961/highlight/true#M231307

 

...I guess that Symantec discovered that the 'Vulnerability Protection' feature, highlighted in those screenshots above, was simply a static list that never got updated. This feature offered no value to end users and was therefore removed from the Version 21 products.