firewall in nortonantivirus 2005?

[osama aani]

hi for all, idonot know if the firewall in norton antivirus have a high protect against trojans or not? iam installing norton system work 2005 and when iam making security scan online in symantec corporation the result tell me your computer at risk you must install norton internet security or modify your firewall to high protect . please what am i doing? thanks for all.??? ???

[Randy_Bell]

You are speaking of the Worm Blocking component of NAV 2005. It is just a rudimentary "mini-firewall" borrowed from NIS/NPF {the Norton firewall}; it has no outbound protection, just inbound. When I was using NAV 2005, because I am familiar with Norton firewall, I was able to "tweak" the rules to get the Worm Blocker to make my PC "stealth" all by itself {without Windows firewall, ZoneAlarm, or any other firewall in place}. It may already stealth your box, you can test at GRC Shields-Up: https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

[osama aani]

hi randy bell, thanks for your ans. results (checking the Most Common and
Troublesome Internet Ports)trustealth anlysis failed
GRC Port Authority Report created on UTC: 2006-02-03 at 22:15:00

Results from scan of ports: 0, 21-23, 25, 79, 80, 110, 113,
119, 135, 139, 143, 389, 443, 445,
1002, 1024-1030, 1720, 5000

22 Ports Open
2 Ports Closed
2 Ports Stealth
---------------------
26 Ports Tested

Ports found to be CLOSED were: 21, 23

Ports found to be STEALTH were: 139, 445

Other than what is listed above, all ports are OPEN.

TruStealth: FAILED - NOT all tested ports were STEALTH,
- NO unsolicited packets were received,
- A PING REPLY (ICMP Echo) WAS RECEIVED.
check my computer's Internet
connection security
1-Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!
2-Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer
iam sorry if iam disturbance you. now what iam doing?

[Randy_Bell]

Hmmm; well for now, I would advise you to turn on the Windows firewall. Do you know how to do this? Go to: Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Security Center. Then at the bottom of Security Center you will see Windows Firewall -- click on that, then check: On (recommended), then click OK. Then go to GRC Shields-UP and test again, you should be stealth. Windows firewall is perfectly compatible with NAV 2005 worm blocking. Oh, I am assuming you are using Windows XP, of course. Hope that helps .. ;)

[osama aani]

thank you very much for this help . i donot know how i thanks you .
best kind regards.

[Randy_Bell]

You're welcome, and let us know if you have any further problems protecting your PC. ;)

[osama aani]

hi randy bell, no problems now for protecting my computer .iam making your instruction and now windows firewall turn on(norton internet worm protection)

[Randy_Bell]

Glad you have it under control, osama; good luck! ;)