view all norton firewall rules

Feb 27, 2005 5 Replies

I have Norton Internet Security 2004. The firewall says it has created



390 rules. How can I view these?

The reason I ask, is I was doing something on my local computer, and a Norton popup came up and said "win32.exe" was trying to access the internet (recommend OK). Since I wasn't doing anything on the net, I told it to block it (without thinking). I could no longer access the internet with the firewall on after this. I looked under programs, and could not find that this program was blocked. Finally, I went to the logs, and it showed I created a rule (which I couldn't find) to block SVCHOST.exe (oops). In desperation, I created a rule for SVCHOST.exe, and a popup says there already was a rule to BLOCK SVCHOST.exe, and I changed it to permit. How can I find ALL these rules? I do not like Norton--it works well, but it is confusing.



Jim



Jim,

  1. Open Norton Internet Security.

  1. Double left click Personal Firewall.

  2. Click on Programs.

  1. Scroll through the Manual Program Control to view your current rules, change them, etc.

Hope this helps.

Brad Reese BradReese.Com Cisco Certified Network Engineer Jobs United Kingdom: 44-20-70784294 U.S. Toll Free: 877-549-2680 International: 828-277-7272 Fax: 775-254-3558 Website:

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Hi,

Have you try contacting their technical support ?

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They have technical support !?!?!

You can't find them all in one place. Some are application dependent rules which you find in the list of programs. Some are general rules always applicable and some are special trojan rules. The only list of all rules I remember was on the network status window. The window listed the rules with the number of times each rule fired. This list was I think comprehensive, but gives you only the names of the rules, not really pointers where to find them. But if you look at it closely you will notice that there are different sections: the first rules are the general rules, later there are the application rules. If you check the rules before and after a specific rule in question it should give you additional pointers where to search...

Gerald

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