I hope the full subject name will be displayed... The explaination of what I'm trying to accomplish and how I went about it kinda move in opposite directions, so please bear with me.
I'm using Norton 360 v5(.2.2.3 if it matters), and I'm trying to block all network traffic, period. In, out, in+out, all of it. I've tried the obvious "Block All Network Traffic" switch to no avail. I've tried creating custom block-everything rules, also with no success. I'm not certain, but I don't think it's doing the job I think it should be doing.
This arose because I'm trying to block a specific IPv4 address. Prior to attempting to block everything, I tried creating a rule to block just this IPv4 address by adding it under "Traffic Rules", blocking traffic in, out, and in+out. Then I created a second rule to block the www site it was associated with, again blocking in, out, and in+out. And I know these are the correct addresses, having found them using the Wireshark capture program.
Of course it could be likely that this is my fault, because I did a few things before trying it. I had deactivated the Smart Firewall temporarily to turn on Windows Firewall for a short time, and used Wireshark throughout the process of finding the malicious IPv4 and URL address I was looking to block. After I had them, I uninstalled Wireshark, turned off Windows Firewall, and immediately reactivated the N360v5 Smart Firewall. I restarted the system after that, and then created the rules I referred to previously, realized they weren't working, and then tried to "Block All Network Traffic" and create the block-everything rules, both of them doing the job (as I said, the explaination seems a bit backwards).
So did I mess it up myself? Or is there really something not-right about the Smart Firewall? Windows Firewall was blocking the IPv4 and URL pretty well, but I just feel more secure if every aspect of Norton is working right.
Can you show us screen shots of the rules (all the editing / creation screens) of the custom blocking rules? Can you also show us the placement (where on the Traffic list) you placed these rules?
whyme777x wrote:
Of course it could be likely that this is my fault, because I did a few things before trying it. I had deactivated the Smart Firewall temporarily to turn on Windows Firewall for a short time, and used Wireshark throughout the process of finding the malicious IPv4 and URL address I was looking to block. After I had them, I uninstalled Wireshark, turned off Windows Firewall, and immediately reactivated the N360v5 Smart Firewall. I restarted the system after that, and then created the rules I referred to previously, realized they weren't working, and then tried to "Block All Network Traffic" and create the block-everything rules, both of them doing the job (as I said, the explaination seems a bit backwards).
So did I mess it up myself? Or is there really something not-right about the Smart Firewall? Windows Firewall was blocking the IPv4 and URL pretty well, but I just feel more secure if every aspect of Norton is working right.
Hi whyme777x
It is not clear how you managed to enable and disable the Windows firewall.
Even after you turn off Smart firewall, there is no way to enable Windows firewall.
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