Norton Personal Firewall 2002
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Software Reviews of Norton Personal Firewall 2002
Customer Review: Safety comes on a single disk.
Summary: 5 Stars
I was very pleased with the ease of the installation. It was so easy I wasn't sure if it was working. You can easily look at the status as well as the past statistics of your system's security with just a click of the mouse. Every day since installing the software it has stopped several attack attempts. I was especially happy to have this installed when I went with cable modem service! I was concened that this would use a lot of system resources, but that hasn't been a problem for me at all! Everything runs like a top! I HIGHLY recommend this software!Customer Review: More annoying than the threat of being hacked
Summary: 1 Stars
It's easy to install and set up, but it's impossible to configure to the way you want it to work. At first I set it for maximum security and quickly realized it was annoying me with messages and alerts on every page I clicked on. On every single java applet or active x control it would prompt me for an ok. Even if I said ok it would usually block it anyway or it wouldn't work properly after Norton got done with it.So I decided to go the other route and allow pretty much everything to work by default. Norton would STILL mess everything up. My own personal home page has some shockwave menu buttons, Norton blocks them so they no longer work. On this site, norton blocks pretty much all little graphics such as my 1 star rating and the menu tabs at the top of the page.
Basically I wanted a program that would keep my information private and let me know if people were attempting to hack into my system. If it blocked ads and popup windows - that'd be a nice bonus. It does provide a cool little alert tool in the shape of a half-globe that alerts you when suspected attackers are trying to access your system. In my case it was mostly script kiddies trying to enable subseven. As far as releasing personal information though, who knows? I've caught Norton numerous times allowing various programs to access the internet without my permission (for example, annoying programs like Windows Media go to the msn site upon launch without my permission or others will check for updates to their software). If Norton allows that, what else is it going to allow - personal information and backdoor trojans it doesn't yet know about sounds like a logical conclusion.
Most annoying, though is the so-called ad blocking. It doesn't work - plain and simple. Even annoying popup windows continue to pop up. It does, however, block graphics you do want to see. The whole purpose of graphics blocking was to enable web pages to load faster. These settings already can be controlled by Netscape or IE so why Norton does this is beyond me. Plus, with Norton Firewall enabled it takes so long to load a web page it defeats the whole purpose of graphics blocking in the first place.
The Norton Knowledgebase was no help and it became ridiculous trying to get an answer from someone with a pulse or a brain. I found myself disabling the program constantly just to get web pages to load properly. This kind of defeates the whole purpose, doesn't it?
I'm going to check out the latest release of ZoneAlarm. If I don't like it, I'm going back to Black Ice. In the case of this program, let's see if the uninstaller works like it's supposed to.
Customer Review: Cable users beware
Summary: 4 Stars
I just purchased norton Internet security 2002 and found it much more user friendly than my older version. However, at times my user resources get incredibly low - such that my PC clock even stops keeping time. Norton says "they are working on this". My most important recommendation is that you always disable Norton when downloading new software to your PC!!!!!!! Don't let Norton be incharge of what you want installed and what you don't. We found this out the hard way when installing our new software for our cable internet service. This caused slow slow slow service and it was like our mouse had terrets!Customer Review: Robert B. Kincaid
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently purchased Norton Firewall 2002 and am very pleased with its performance. I thought it may be a little difficult to set up, but actually it is very simple. There are "recommended" settings which prevent the unnecessary pop ups and still provide complete protection. I have dial-up and I still purchased it because I wanted to feel safe when online. I now own 3 Norton products and all have done well.Customer Review: Not better than Conseal
Summary: 3 Stars
Conseal PC firewal at signal9.com is still to me the best firewall. Too bad they don't offer it on CD though. If you must have a CD with the program then get this or Guard Dog, if you don't mind the download I advise getting Conseal.