I didn't know V3 antivirus had a personal firewall?

I was looking at the event log while ago and saw these messages - actually a repeating sequence of them identical except for the time tags. Does the antivirus program really contain a personal firewall?

11/27/2008 6:42:27 PM Personal firewall An error occurred while starting proxy server. Checking of application protocols (POP3, HTTP) will not work.

11/27/2008 6:42:09 PM Personal firewall An error occurred while starting services. Analysis of application protocols (POP3, HTTP) will not function.


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The antivirus does not have a firewall. The suite has a firewall and spam protection.

 

Right...so why does the log have a message identified as coming from the "personal firewall" module" - I don't have the suite, only the V3 antivirus?


<Smith & Wesson...the original point and click interface>

 

Are you giving NOD32 the appropriate permissions within your firewall?

 

The HTTP scanner is part of the ESS firewall, hence the message.

 

Is that necessary even with windows firewall? Reason I ask is I didn't change anything with my firewall when installing V3.

 

OK...so this is just some code shared/lifted from the security suite and not really a full fledged "personal firewall", right?

thanks for the responses

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