Firewall keeps asking to permit

dbnavan

every so often norton firewall pops up to ask me if skype may be permitted to connect to the internet, of course i do, there used to be a option to permit always but it is no longer there, just yes or no, very annoying it already asked 4 times this morning.

any ideas

chopster

Not familiar with norton , but is there not an accessible interface like zonealarm whereby you can go into it and allow/disallow specific programs to access the internet individually ?

conzy

Norton always does that, My advice is to uninstall it and never speak of it again:p

But seriously, there are better alternatives, some of them free

Zonealarm and Kerio Are both free, and have better retail versions for ~€30

Zoned

conzymaher wrote:

Norton always does that, My advice is to uninstall it and never speak of it again:p

My sentiments exactly... going a bit off topic some versions of Zonealarm was found to be "phoning" home...:eek:

conzy

Yup,

You can just add it to your hosts file, and it cant phone home.

Peer Guardian 2 also blocks it, and on the topic of security its a great program for blocking known ad servers, spyware.........

It will annoy you for a while like all software that "learns" but its a great program and its amazing the amount of thing it blocks:eek:

dubmick

As previously said, Norton is a pain in the hole...get rid of it!

SeanW

I use McAffee Personal Firewall Express on Tight Security and I only get asked once what do when a program wants to access the Internet, and again if it wants to accept connections like a server.

Would reccommend it strongly.

I got Norton with my computer and I gave up on it after it refused to install. I later found that the problem was with virtual drive software I had been using but not before I'd found alternatives.

astrofool

Its because each Skype contact is a different IP, so Norton asks for each one, which is of course really stupid and it should be uninstalled forever Norton products have really gone downhill the last couple of years imo, I used to always buy (yes legally!) that years system works, till 2005 was a complete dog and stopped system shutting down. Have used a hardware firewall and AVG since.

ShiverinEskimo

Yup - any decent Mobo these days should have a built in hardware firewall which does the job perfectly - I'm quite happy with the in built DFI one I use.

The only time it asks for the same program is when an update has occurred to that program which is fine by me.